7th Tennessee Calvary, Co K, private/corporal, enlisted for 3 years in Gibson Co, TN on 6/1/63 and mustered in at Grand Junction, TN on 6/27/63 at age 30. He brought his own horse and equipment. He was 5'8" tall, light complexion, blue eyes, light hair, born in Gibson Co, TN and a resident thereof when he enlisted. Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he died of scrobutus and a gunshot (wound?) on 8/22/64. He was buried in grave #6411 in the Andersonville National Cemetery. His wife, Sallie M Akens, then living in Bradford, TN, received a pension in 1867 but did not remember what regiment George was in when interviewed by the government census taker in 1890.
7th Tennessee Calvary, Co K, private/corporal, enlisted for 3 years in Gibson Co, TN on 6/1/63 and mustered in at Grand Junction, TN on 6/27/63 at age 30. He brought his own horse and equipment. He was 5'8" tall, light complexion, blue eyes, light hair, born in Gibson Co, TN and a resident thereof when he enlisted. Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he died of scrobutus and a gunshot (wound?) on 8/22/64. He was buried in grave #6411 in the Andersonville National Cemetery. His wife, Sallie M Akens, then living in Bradford, TN, received a pension in 1867 but did not remember what regiment George was in when interviewed by the government census taker in 1890.
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