It appears that I am fortunate that George was apparently one of the 23 men of the 110 on the 1861 muster lists who did not re-enlist after one year, as the high casualty rate of the regiment after the spring of 1862 makes it possible/probable that he would have been wounded or killed!

I think his brother Charles survived the chronic diarrhea and returned to Wythe County, but I know of nothing else about him.

There is an 1898 list of Tazewell County veterans receiving benefits from the Commonwealth that lists him, and it says he served four years, but that appears to be inaccurate!

• Link to that list: http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/tazewell1898.htm.

After the war George went first to Russell County, where he married in 1874, and then to Tazewell, where he served as town constable (police officer) until his retirement. He died in 1910 and is buried in Tazewell.

He had two sons and two daughters. The daughters were childless but the two sons had children, including of course my father, who still lives in Richlands, Tazewell County, where I was born and grew up.

The pin George is wearing is a Masonic pin. He was sergeant-at-arms of the Masonic Lodge in Tazewell for many years.