George W Hickman
Birth: 19 Mar 1842
Death: 27 Sep 1908
(Aged 66 years, 6 months, 8 days.)
Burial: Rapides Cemetery
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
Served in Company D, 1st Cav., Louisiana as Pvt
Unit Details:
1st Cavalry Regiment, organized at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during the late summer of 1861, recruited its members in Baton Rouge and the parishes of East Baton Rouge, Rapides, St. Landry, and Orleans. It skirmished in Tennessee and Kentucky, fought at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, then was active in the Knoxville Campaign. Later the regiment was on duty in Southwest Mississippi and East Louisiana. In March, 1865, it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel John S. Scott, Lieutenant Colonel James O. Nixon, and Majors Gervais Schlater and J.M. Taylor.Loading descendant information [if it can be found]. This may take up to a minute. Generally, when it takes longer times it is finding more information.