Halifax County NcArchives Military Records.....Harper, George W. July 12, 1862
Civilwar Company I, 12th Regiment
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Death Of George W. Harper
The Standard of Raleigh:  Sept. 3, 1862
   DIED, at Bird Island Hospital, Richmond, Va., July 12th, 1862, of wounds 
received at the battle of Malvern Hill on the 1st, GEORGE W. HARPER, of 
Halifax County, N. C., a member of Company I, 12th Regiment, North Carolina 
Troops, aged exactly 22 years on the day of the battle, He had previously 
volunteered and served out his term in the immortal 1st, or Bethel Regiment, 
having quit college to join the Enfield Blues, belonging to that regiment, and 
after the disbanding of it, he joined the company above named, which he was 
leading in a charge upon the enemy -- (the first officers of the company being 
all sick, wounded, or missing) -- when he received the wound that terminated 
his young and promising career.
   GEORGE was a most estimable and lovely youth, noted from his earliest 
childhood for his kindly disposition, truthfulness and moral bearing, amidst 
all the temptations to which the young are unfortunately exposed.

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