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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George W. Bradley

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with his parents and 3 siblings on their small farm at Calhoun in Gordon County, GA. He enlisted there on 29 April 1861 and mustered in Augusta, GA on 4 May as a Private in Company F, 4th Georgia Infantry. He was sick in camp and in hospitals for much of the summer of 1862 with gonorrhea and returned to his company on 21 August.

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, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 12 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and furloughed for 30 days on 15 November. He died at Fredericksburg, VA on 19 April 1863.

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.

Birth

c. 1841 in GA

Death

04/19/1863; Fredericksburg, 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 34633]

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: #241 [AotW citation 34634]

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