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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Enoch George F. Alderman

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 31st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his father and 2 siblings on their small farm in the Red Bone District of Marion County, GA. He enlisted in Muscogee, GA on 5 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 27th Georgia Infantry. The regiment was re-designated the 31st Georgia Infantry about April 1862.

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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Winder Hospital, Division 2 in Richmond, VA on 14 October and died there of phithisis pulmonalis (pulmonary tuberculosis) on 21 October 1862.

His father Isaac filed a claim for his final pay in May 1863. It may have been paid in January 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/23/1843; Randolph County, GA

Death

10/21/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 34546]

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: #343 [AotW citation 34547]

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