George Baird Hodge

Residence Newport KY;
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown).

Promotions:
* Major
* Colonel
* Brig-Gen 11/20/1863 (Rejected by CSA Senate)
* Brig-Gen 8/2/1864 (Rejected by CSA Senate)

He also had service in:
CS Gen & Staff

Other Information:
born 4/8/1828
died 8/1/1892 in Longwood, Orange County, FL

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Confederate Military History
- Photo courtesy of David L. Bush
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NOTES:

Brigadier-General George B. Hodge

Brigadier-General George B. Hodge was born in Fleming county,
Ky., in April, 1828. When quite young he entered the naval
academy at Annapolis, Md.; became midshipman in December,
1845, and was acting lieutenant in the navy when he resigned
in 1851.

Then entering upon the study of law, he was admitted to the
bar at Newport, Ky., and became prominent as a lawyer and
political leader. In 1859 he was elected to the legislature
of Kentucky and in 1860 was an elector on the Breckinridge
ticket.

He was an earnest Democrat and an ardent supporter of the
State rights doctrine. Though regretting secession he stood
ready to defend the sovereignty of the States which he thought
endangered. His zeal for the Southern cause is shown by the
fact that, though a man of civil prominence, he entered the
Confederate army as a private.

He was soon after this elected to represent Kentucky in the
Confederate Congress. When not serving in that body he was in
the field. It was a common thing during the war between the
States for men of the highest social standing to enter the
army as privates, and some from the very best families served
throughout the war in the ranks.

That accounts in a great measure for the splendid fighting
qualities of the Confederate soldier; for the heart of the
private soldier throbbed with the same pride of birth and name
as that of the commanding general. Private Hodge, the
Confederate congressman, was soon made a captain and acting
adjutant-general of Breckinridge's division.

For gallantry at the battle of Shiloh he was promoted to
major, with commission bearing date of May 6, 1862.
Continuing to act as adjutant-general he was promoted to
colonel, May 6, 1863. He was for a while inspector-general at
Cumberland Gap, and commanded Preston's cavalry in various
operations in east Tennessee.

Coming to north Georgia with the forces under Buckner, he
participated in Wheeler's raid in middle Tennessee, after
Chickamauga, and was commended by Wheeler for his good conduct
in command of a cavalry brigade. On August 2, 1864, he was
commissioned brigadier-general and put in command of the
district of Southwest Mississippi and East Louisiana,
remaining in that position until the end of the war.

He then returned to his home in Newport, Ky., where he resumed
his law practice. He was an elector on the Greeley ticket in
1872, was elected State senator in 1873, and served until
1877. His death occurred shortly after the expiration of his
term of office.

Source: Confederate Military History, vol. XI, p. 244