George served in two different regiments during the War. At 16 he was called up when Lee's army invaded his home state of Pennsylvania in 1862. He was in training in Harrisburg when the battle of Gettysburg was fought. When Lee's army returned to the South, George's emergency regiment was disbanded. He returned home until he was 18 when he joined a Calvary regiment. He fought through the final years of the war and his regiment was present when Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War.
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