Philander Chinn George enlisted in Company C of the 9th Virginia Cavalry as a private on May 25, 1861. He was detailed as an ambulance dirver in April, 1862. he was taken prisoner at Amelia Couth house on April 3, 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was kept until he took the oath of allegiance on June 12, 1865.
George attended Dickinson College after leaving R-MC, graduating in 1850. In 1870 he was a farmer in Westmoreland county, VA, but by1880, he was a public school teacher in Montross (Westmoreland County0, VA. According to his widow's pension application, he died July 11, 1899 of heart trouble.
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