George W. Freeman

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his father Andrew, sisters Eliza Ann and Mary, and 1 slave on their farm at Rockford/Nixburg in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 27 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA in May and June, and one in Farmville, VA due to kidney disease from 16 July to 5 August 1862.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Culpeper, VA on 26 September. He was in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA with gonorrhea from December 1862 into March 1863, and on furlough into May, and was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives;2 his records and those of George W Freeman of Company F are intermingled. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brothers John and James were also in Company C and wounded at Sharpsburg; James was killed at Chancellorsville in May 1863. Brother William, also in Company C, died of disease in Richmond, VA in July 1862.

c. 1845 in MS

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA