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(? - 1862)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in the 7th Virginia Infantry, date and Company not known.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the chest and hip and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farmat Sharpsburg, but died there on 20 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from Riggs1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as George W Atwood.
Death
09/20/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Riggs, David F., 7th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H. E. Howard, Inc., 1982 [AotW citation 9714]