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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George Monroe

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 10 July 1861 at Columbus, Colorado County, and mustered as a Private in Company B, 5th Texas Infantry. He "went to the rear without leave" on 2 July 1862 and "straggled from company [and] did not get into the fight" at Manassas, VA on 30 August - losing his gun and accouterments in the process.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland and was detailed as an advance picket at Sharpsburg on the evening on 16 September 1862. He was not heard from afterward and initially presumed killed. He was captured at Sharpsburg, probably having intentionally deserted, and was paroled there on 20 September.

The rest of the War

He signed a statement requesting not to be exchanged back to his unit and was released on 24 September 1862 to go to any state not in rebellion. There is no later military record in his file.

References & notes

His service from Polley,1 who lists him as killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Notes

1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 332-334 [AotW citation 2502]

2 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 32624]

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