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m. 24 Mar 1834
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"Three of the seven sons was in our great Civil war. But the(y) birth different opinions regarding it's true and main cause. "Brother George went through the hold strenious & distractive Siege. With a bullet passing through his body barely missing his heart. "After the war ended He came out to Illinois and Brother Peter at that time had charge of a Division as RoadMaster. Gave him a position as Bridge carpenter and while at work on building bridge at LaSalle lost his balance and fell 72 feet & was instantly killed after going through all of the most serious struggles of humanity in war." George Rockwell served in Company F of the 112th Illinois Regiment. This regiment had extensive action for 2 1/2 years beginning in the Autumn of 1862 in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. The regiment lost 234 men, 80 in combat and 154 by disease. The LaSalle bridge, where Edward reports that George was killed during construction, was built or rebuilt about 1893. Edward states that this was "after the war". So it might have been expected to be earlier than 1893. No other evidence of George appears after the war, suggesting that he might have died soon after the war, before the 1870 census. In Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, George W. Rockwell is listed in the roll of Company E, Second Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate States Army) -
From "History of the 112th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry ..." George Rockwell. Enlisted Aug. 20 '62. Absent sick at Knoxville, Tenn., since May 7 '64, and transferred. Discharged at Knoxville, july 12, '65. Killed in Neb., since the war.
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