Sunday, February 12, 2012

George Washington Alston, student 1861-1863

Alston enlisted as a private in North Carolina's Mallett's Battalion Camp Guard. He transferred to Co. E of the N.C. 1st Cavalry on February 29, 1864.

Alston returned to the family plantation "Cherry Hill" in Warren County, N.C. and became a farmer for the rest of his life, dying on November 8, 1916.

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