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Submitted: 7/13/14 • Approved: 8/18/22 • Last Updated: 8/21/22 • R1021413-G0-S3
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Company H 37 Mississippi Infantry
Civil War CSA
July 17, 1840 - May 22, 1914
*Obituary
Family History
SHANKLES, George N. – George N. Shankles enlisted in Company H, 37th Mississippi Infantry in 1862, leaving his pregnant wife. Jinsey, behind. He was captured the third day of the 1863 battle of Chickamauga and sent to Rock Island Barracks prison where he spent 574 days before being released June 22, 1865. He returned to his wife and now 2 year-old son. George eventually migrated with his family to Washington County, Arkansas where he was a farmer, was married three times and became the father of 14 children. [Research by Billye Jean Bell]
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 7/13/14 by wfields55
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