George H. Carmical

He moved with his family to Newnan, Georgia about 1852 and in 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and siblings on the family farm there. In May 1861 he enlisted as a Private in Company A, Seventh Georgia Infantry, and he was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 31 May. He was wounded at First Manassas in July and, in a reorganization, was elected Captain on 16 December 1861. He was promoted to Major of the regiment at Malvern Hill on 1 July 1862 and to Lieutenant Colonel on 1 September 1862 immediately after 2nd Manassas, where Colonel W. T. Wilson was killed.

He commanded the regiment in Maryland.

He continued with the regiment through Gettysburg, PA (July 1863) and Knoxville, TN (4 December 1863), where he was again wounded. He was elected Colonel on 27 July 1864.

At Fussell's Mill [on the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign,] 16 August 1864, he was hit by a ball which went through his nose and out under the left eye, leaving a very ugly scar, one of seven. After partial recovery from this wound he returned to his regiment, while camped near Richmond, Va., and surrendered at Appomattox Court House.

He returned to Georgia, was elected Sheriff of Coweta County, and was a farmer. He was still Sheriff as late as 1895. He was 82 years old and still in Newnan, GA at the 1920 US Census.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from Memoirs of Georgia (Southern Historical Association, 1895), source also of the quote above, and from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

01/23/1842; Newberry District, SC

10/31/1929; Coweta County, GA; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan, GA