Tuesday, March 25, 2014

George W. Magruder, Class of 1854

Magruder was a doctor in Woodstock, VA when he enlisted in Co. F of the 10th VA Infantry on April 18, 1861. H was commissioned 2nd lieutenant on August 22, 1861. He later served as an Assistant Surgeon with the 146th VA Militia. He was assigned to the General Hospital in Staunton, VA and is listed in June 1862 as serving with the Army of the Valley. He had been sent to Greenwood Hospital on June 8, 1862. Further records have not yet been found.

After the war, he returned to Woodstock and practiced medicine. He moved to Fort Worth, TX in 1889, where he died on July 19, 1891. he is buried in Fort Worth's Pioneer's Rest Cemetery.

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