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PVT George W Owens

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Birth	:	1837 Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Death	:	22 May 1864 Harrisonburg City, Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg City, USA
Coordinate	:	38.4480286, -78.8624420
Description	:	OWENS, GEORGE: from his Civil War enlistment papers, Says he was born 1837 in Pittsylvania Co, VA. Co. K, 51st VA, Enl. on 6/24/61 at Independence. MWIA (something in throat). Died at Harrisonburg General Hospital on 5/22/64, place WIA not recorded. Probably buried in mass grave here with no stone NOTES Soldiers’ Cemetery at Woodbine - (Woodbine Cemetery) 212 Reservoir St. Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Woodbine Cemetery was chartered in March 1850. Later that same year a lot was purchased for burials when Harrisonburg’s first mayor Isaac Hardesty sold 2½ acres to the cemetery company. Woodbine was developed as the town’s main cemetery, and the need for gravesites for... Read More	OWENS, GEORGE: from his Civil War enlistment papers, Says he was born 1837 in Pittsylvania Co, VA. Co. K, 51st VA, Enl. on 6/24/61 at Independence. MWIA (something in throat). Died at Harrisonburg General Hospital on 5/22/64, place WIA not recorded. Probably buried in mass grave here with no stone NOTES Soldiers’ Cemetery at Woodbine - (Woodbine Cemetery) 212 Reservoir St. Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Woodbine Cemetery was chartered in March 1850. Later that same year a lot was purchased for burials when Harrisonburg’s first mayor Isaac Hardesty sold 2½ acres to the cemetery company. Woodbine was developed as the town’s main cemetery, and the need for gravesites for fallen Civil War soldiers became apparent early in the conflict. The nearby action where General Turner Ashby was killed and the battles at Port Republic and Cross Keys added additional burials, as did fatalities at Harrisonburg’s Confederate General Hospital. A one-acre lot was donated by Harrisonburg merchant Samuel Shacklett for a “Soldiers’ Cemetery.” In June 1868 women from the town formed a Ladies Memorial Association, led by Mrs. Juliet Lyle Strayer. The Memorial Association provided care and maintenance for the graves of fallen Confederates buried there. A Civil War Trails sign on the Harrisonburg Female Academy and its use as a hospital during the war. The structure that this marker refers to was demolished in 1879, yet during the war, the Harrisonburg Female Academy as it was then known, would eventually be used as Hospital in 1861. Harrisonburg Physician Dr. W.W.S. Butler was appointed Surgeon in charge. The building was designated a Confederate General Hospital in 1862. By 1863, some 763 patients had been treated at the hospital of whom only 19 had died, which even by today’s standards is an impressive rate. Many of the men who died at the hospital were interred at Woodbine Cemetery. NOTES Harrisonburg’s Confederate General Hospital /Harrisonburg Female Academy (City of Harrisonburg Municipal Building) 345 S. Main St. Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Harrisonburg was Rockingham County’s seat of government and largest town, and it was an ideal site for a hospital. When the Civil War began in 1861, although the railroad had not yet extended to Harrisonburg, the town sat at the intersection of four turnpikes, including the Valley Turnpike, the main avenue for travel through Virginia’s Great Valley. Various buildings in Harrisonburg were used as temporary hospitals from the outset of the War; the most important of these was the Harrisonburg Female Academy at this location on Main Street. It was converted to hospital use in 1861, and was known as the Harrisonburg Confederate General Hospital.

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PVT George W Owens's memorial is located at: Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg City, USA.
When did PVT George W Owens death?
PVT George W Owens death on 22 May 1864 in Harrisonburg City, Virginia, USA
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Latitude: 38.4480286
Longitude: -78.8624420

Family Members:

Spouse

Sarah Emoline Brown Carrico

(1843 - 1927)

Children

James Wiley Owens

(1864 - 1945)

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