Company K, 29th North Carolina Regiment, (CSA) On May 1, 1862 George W. Young transferred from Company K to Company I of the 29th Regiment.
In August 1862 the brigade marched to Kentucky in support of Bragg's invasion of that state. After Bragg's defeat at Perryville on October 8, the Confederate forces retreated back to East Tennessee. A series of troop movements in Tennessee followed, with the 29th Regiment being variously deployed to Lenoir Station, Normandy Station, Manchester, Readyville, and McMinnville. On Christmas Day, 1862 the regiment was sent to Mufreesboro, and on December 31 the battle at Mufreesboro began and continued for the next two days.
The 29th Regiment was heavily engaged on the first day of battle, and their brigade commander Gen. James Rains was killed. Altogether, the regiment lost 60 men killed and wounded at Mufreesboro.
After the battle Confederate forces retreated in the direction of Shelbyville. The 29th Regiment would remain encamped in or near Shelbyville until May 1863. It was here at Shelbyville on February 12, 1863 that George W. Young died (date taken from Young family bible). The cause of his death was not reported; he may have been wounded at Mufreesboro a few weeks before, but more likely he succumbed to one of the diseases so prevalent in Civil War army camps. (When the 29th Regiment left Shelbyville, Col. Robert Vance was ill with typhoid and remained behind; perhaps George W. Young died from the same disease.) According to caretaker records, George Washington Young is buried at Shelbyville in Willow Mount Cemetery, Range 4 on Confederate Lane, and the date of his death was Feb. 13, 1863
In August 1862 the brigade marched to Kentucky in support of Bragg's invasion of that state. After Bragg's defeat at Perryville on October 8, the Confederate forces retreated back to East Tennessee. A series of troop movements in Tennessee followed, with the 29th Regiment being variously deployed to Lenoir Station, Normandy Station, Manchester, Readyville, and McMinnville. On Christmas Day, 1862 the regiment was sent to Mufreesboro, and on December 31 the battle at Mufreesboro began and continued for the next two days.
The 29th Regiment was heavily engaged on the first day of battle, and their brigade commander Gen. James Rains was killed. Altogether, the regiment lost 60 men killed and wounded at Mufreesboro.
After the battle Confederate forces retreated in the direction of Shelbyville. The 29th Regiment would remain encamped in or near Shelbyville until May 1863. It was here at Shelbyville on February 12, 1863 that George W. Young died (date taken from Young family bible). The cause of his death was not reported; he may have been wounded at Mufreesboro a few weeks before, but more likely he succumbed to one of the diseases so prevalent in Civil War army camps. (When the 29th Regiment left Shelbyville, Col. Robert Vance was ill with typhoid and remained behind; perhaps George W. Young died from the same disease.) According to caretaker records, George Washington Young is buried at Shelbyville in Willow Mount Cemetery, Range 4 on Confederate Lane, and the date of his death was Feb. 13, 1863
Company K, 29th North Carolina Regiment, (CSA) On May 1, 1862 George W. Young transferred from Company K to Company I of the 29th Regiment.
In August 1862 the brigade marched to Kentucky in support of Bragg's invasion of that state. After Bragg's defeat at Perryville on October 8, the Confederate forces retreated back to East Tennessee. A series of troop movements in Tennessee followed, with the 29th Regiment being variously deployed to Lenoir Station, Normandy Station, Manchester, Readyville, and McMinnville. On Christmas Day, 1862 the regiment was sent to Mufreesboro, and on December 31 the battle at Mufreesboro began and continued for the next two days.
The 29th Regiment was heavily engaged on the first day of battle, and their brigade commander Gen. James Rains was killed. Altogether, the regiment lost 60 men killed and wounded at Mufreesboro.
After the battle Confederate forces retreated in the direction of Shelbyville. The 29th Regiment would remain encamped in or near Shelbyville until May 1863. It was here at Shelbyville on February 12, 1863 that George W. Young died (date taken from Young family bible). The cause of his death was not reported; he may have been wounded at Mufreesboro a few weeks before, but more likely he succumbed to one of the diseases so prevalent in Civil War army camps. (When the 29th Regiment left Shelbyville, Col. Robert Vance was ill with typhoid and remained behind; perhaps George W. Young died from the same disease.) According to caretaker records, George Washington Young is buried at Shelbyville in Willow Mount Cemetery, Range 4 on Confederate Lane, and the date of his death was Feb. 13, 1863
In August 1862 the brigade marched to Kentucky in support of Bragg's invasion of that state. After Bragg's defeat at Perryville on October 8, the Confederate forces retreated back to East Tennessee. A series of troop movements in Tennessee followed, with the 29th Regiment being variously deployed to Lenoir Station, Normandy Station, Manchester, Readyville, and McMinnville. On Christmas Day, 1862 the regiment was sent to Mufreesboro, and on December 31 the battle at Mufreesboro began and continued for the next two days.
The 29th Regiment was heavily engaged on the first day of battle, and their brigade commander Gen. James Rains was killed. Altogether, the regiment lost 60 men killed and wounded at Mufreesboro.
After the battle Confederate forces retreated in the direction of Shelbyville. The 29th Regiment would remain encamped in or near Shelbyville until May 1863. It was here at Shelbyville on February 12, 1863 that George W. Young died (date taken from Young family bible). The cause of his death was not reported; he may have been wounded at Mufreesboro a few weeks before, but more likely he succumbed to one of the diseases so prevalent in Civil War army camps. (When the 29th Regiment left Shelbyville, Col. Robert Vance was ill with typhoid and remained behind; perhaps George W. Young died from the same disease.) According to caretaker records, George Washington Young is buried at Shelbyville in Willow Mount Cemetery, Range 4 on Confederate Lane, and the date of his death was Feb. 13, 1863
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