George Paul Harrison Sr.
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George Paul Harrison Sr. (October 19, 1813 – May 14, 1888) was a brigadier general in the Georgia militia from 1856–1861,[1] commander of the 1st Brigade in the Georgia State Troops[1] and a colonel in Georgia's First Military District in 1864–1865 during the American Civil War (Civil War). He was a prisoner of war for several months near the end of the war.
George Paul Harrison Sr. | |
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Born | (1813-10-19)October 19, 1813 Effingham County, Georgia |
Died | May 14, 1888(1888-05-14) (aged 74) Chatham County, Georgia |
Buried | |
Allegiance | Confederate States of America |
Service/ | Georgia militia |
Years of service | 1861–1862; 1864–1865 |
Rank | Brigadier General |
Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Other work | Georgia State representative, court clerk |
George P. Harrison Sr. was a rice planter, brigadier general in the Georgia militia and member of the Georgia House of Representatives before the Civil War. After the war, Harrison was a state representative in 1865–1866, a delegate to the state constitutional convention, a clerk of the city court of Savannah, Georgia and clerk of the superior court of Chatham County, Georgia.
He was the father of George Paul Harrison Jr., a Confederate States Army colonel, who commanded a brigade late in the war and was later an Alabama State Senator and a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.[2][3][4]