Private George McKinney, age 29, enlisted June 28,1861 at Spartanburg in Company I, Captain William M. Foster's Company, 2nd Regiment South Carolina Volunteers**, last recorded present on his company's Nov/Dec 1861 muster

**This company subsequently became Company I, 9th Regiment South Carolina Infantry.

The 9th (also called the 2nd) Regiment South Carolina Infantry was organized July 12, 1861. It was not re-organized for the war but most of the members subsequently served in the 5th and 6th Regiments South Carolina Infantry and Palmetto Regiment South Carolina Sharp Shooters.

NOTE: I would assume he transferred to the 9th South Carolina following the reorganization of the Confederate Army ca May 1862

George McKinney, enlisted as a Private in (2nd) Company I, 5th South Carolina Infantry June 28, 1861 at Spartanburg, missing August 14, 1864 in Virginia, fell into the hands of the enemy at Deep Bottom, sent to Point Lookout, Maryland Prison, exchanged February 10, 1865, admitted Receiving and Wayside Hospital, General Hospital No. 9, Richmond, Virginia February 15, 1865, transferred to Jackson Hospital the next day, Chronic Diarrrhoea, died February 23, 1865,