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Lt. George W. Seaman

George W. Seaman, Co. C 2nd Battalion, Kentucky Mounted Rifles was returned to Vanceburg, KY (Lewis County) at the close of the War. He appeared in Circuit Court on charges of horse stealing, etc. and his brother David W. Seaman promised to return him for the November session. It seems that Lewis County did not require reporting of deaths at that time, so I have had to rely on other hearsay. One of his men wrote that he didn't know what became of him after the War. The Lewis County people didn't want him back there "Unless it was to be Shot" a remark written by L. M. Clark, Lt. Col, 45th Kentucky.
In November, 1865 the charges were dismissed by the Commonwealth. I wonder if my grandmother's Uncle George was so sick at that time that death was certain and there was no point in proceeding in the matter. He never married in Lewis County and didn't own property there. I have never located a family Bible. His brother and other parts of the family had removed to Indiana by 1900 and efforts to find living decendants have failed.