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Union service · West Virginia
6th West Virginia Cavalry
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Company Unknown
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Company Unknown
Private
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Company A
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Company C
Private
My husband''s maternal Great-grandfather, George Washington Hinzman, snuck out of the house in the middle of the night to enlist. He did not have parental permission to join up. He was spurred to enlist because the Confederates had burned much of the timber on his father''s farm. He was 20 years old and was wounded three times.
Company E
Private
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Company E
Private
died at Andersonville 10/24/1864
Company E
Private
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Company E
Private
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Company K
Corporal
my great grandfather,his son was nathen gorrell my grandfather
Company K
Private
Wilson Queen served on BOTH SIDES. He joined the Union Army, 6th West Virginia Cavalry, Co. K, Pvt. (his mother's folks were of a northern bent) and was discharged because of illness. After he returned to his home at Johnstown, Harrison Co., WV, he joined his brother in the 20th Virginia Cavalry, Co. F, Pvt. After the war he practiced medicine in Johnstown and owned a store with his brother in the same village.