Pvt. George Dewey Coggins - Company E, 28th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. George Coggins was born Nov. 26, 1829, in Pike County, Ga. He enlisted as a private in Company E on Sept. 10, 1861. He was wounded in his left side by a minie ball during the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. The muster roll for Dec. 31, 1863, last on file, shows him present. Pension records show that he surrendered at Salisbury, N.C., in 1865. After the war, he was a farmer. He had to live with the minie ball lodged next to his left lung for the rest of his life and he drew a pension from Meriwether County, Ga., due to the wound he received during the war. He died on Mar. 23, 1907, in Carroll County, Ga., and is buried at the Aragon City Cemetery in Aragon, Polk County, Ga.

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Lucy Jane woods was first wife of George.
Lucy Jane Woods was born August 28, 1828 in Pike County, Georgia.
She married George Dewey Coggins on November 21, 1847 in Pike County, Georgia.

Children of George Dewey Coggins and Lucy Woods are:
-Albert Coggins
-Cordelia Clementine Coggins.
Married: (1) D. C. Browning. She married (2) W. F. Simpkins February 24, 1888 in Coweta County, Georgia.
-Mary A. Coggins, born Abt. 1852 in Georgia. Married Joshua C. Gibson.
-John Wesley Coggins, born October 11, 1853 in Heard County, Georgia; died December 18, 1925 in Haralson County, Georgia.
-Sarah Coggins, born Abt. 1854. She married ( - ) Norton.
James T. (Bud) Coggins, born Abt. 1856 in Georgia. He married Lucy A. ( - ).
-Henry Coggins, born Abt. 1857; died in Union Hill, Haralson County, Georgia.
-Augustus (Gus) Coggins, born Abt. 1858 in Georgia.
-Sallie Eugenia (Babe) Coggins, born Abt. 1860 in Meriwether County, Georgia.
-George Alexander Coggins, born April 14, 1865; died June 16, 1929.