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Confederate (CSV)

Gideon H. Macon

(1832 - 1916)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant, Company D, 18th Georgia Infantry in May 1861. Elected 1st Lieutenant July 16, 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Elected Captain April 1863. Absent without leave April l, 1864. Dropped from rolls February 15, 1865.

After the War

Received an Indigent Pension in Wilcox County, GA in 1909.

References & notes

Basic information from Ranger951. Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave.

Birth

09/20/1832; Macon, GA

Death

05/26/1916; burial in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/18th_inf_regt.html [AotW citation 9474]