George Washington Freeman

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer living with his mother and 2 siblings on their small farm at Realtown/Tallassee in Tallapoosa County, AL; future fellow soldier Fleming Freeman (relative?) lived next door with the Echols family. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was reduced to Private on 24 December 1861.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured nearby, at Boonsboro, MD the next day.

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until sent to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October. He was officially exchanged on 10 November, was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 25 November. He was again in hospitals from December 1862 to March 1863 and on furlough into July.

He was listed as a deserter and enlisted in Company G of the 53rd Regiment, Alabama Partisan Rangers (cavalry) on 1 October 1863. He was with them to at least December 1864 and was paroled at Montgomery, AL on 18 May 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Chanahatchie, Elmore County, AL but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he farmed in Morris County, TX.

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 C are intermingled. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Frances "Fannie" Thornton (1846-1906) in 1867 and they had 5 children; her gravestone says she was born in 1826, likely in error.

02/28/1836 in AL

09/06/1905; Morris County, TX; burial in Spring Hill Cemetery, Naples, TX