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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George Henry Blair

(1833 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old school teacher at Cut Off in Walton County, GA. He enlisted in Watkinsville, GA on 20 August 1861 and mustered in Portsmouth, VA on 30 September as a Private in Company L, 3rd Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 7 October and was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was listed as captured at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, but there are no Federal records of that, and no later military record with the 3rd Georgia; it is likely he was killed at Gettysburg.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as F.M. Jordan, 32nd Georgia. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

11/07/1833 in GA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34385]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #465 [AotW citation 34386]

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