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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

George Henry Palmer

(1835 - 1918)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A bookkeeper's son, he enlisted in Athens on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 3rd Georgia Infantry on 4 May in Augusta, GA. He was appointed 2nd Sergeant on 15 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left elbow in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA, found disabled, and detailed in Richmond, VA by April 1863 and to at least February 1865, most of that time as a clerk at the Georgia Relief & Hospital Association. He was captured and paroled at Athens, GA on 8 May 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was bookkeeper/clerk for a cotton mill in Athens. He was still working as a bookkeeper, for a retail grocer in 1910, then 76 years old.

References & notes

His service from Henderson 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/08/1835; Lawrenceville, GA

Death

07/18/1918; Athens, GA; burial in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 2846]

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 30540]

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