Chatham County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sorrell,  Brigadier General Gilbert Moxley August 10, 1901
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Washington Post August 12, 1901
Roanoke, Va., Aug. 11-General G. Moxley Sorrell, age 64, of Savannah, Ga., died 
at the home of his brother, near Roanoke, last midnight.  Gen. Sorrell entered 
the Confederate Army at Savannah as volunteer aid on Longstreet's staff at the 
outbreak of the civil war.  He was promoted several times for gallantry and in 
the third year of the war was made a brigadier general on Longstreet's staff.
He was shot throught the lungs at the Battle of Sharpsburg.  After the war he 
was made superintendent of the Central Railroad of Georgia.  He relinquished 
that position seven years ago to accept the general managership of the 
steamboat line plying between Savannah, New York and Liverpool, which office he 
held at the time of his death.

Additional Comments:
Born in Savannah 23 February 1838.  Brother in law to Confederate General 
William Whann Mackall.  Wounded near Petersburg and at Hatcher's Run.  Author 
of "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer".

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