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If you do not already possess his service record files, they may be procured through the service noted in the Red enclosed box above.

Try a Goggle search: 25th Virginia Cavalry, this will bring up a number of hits

There is also in the Virginia Regimental History Series, 25th Virginia Cavalry, by Dobbie Lambert, 1994, 148 pages, maps, roster, cost $ 25.00, H. E. Howard.

George W. Seals

Residence was not listed; a 25 year-old Farmer.
Enlisted on 9/27/1862 at Rose Hill, VA as a Private.
On 9/27/1862 he mustered into "G" Co. VA 25th Cavalry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* Sent Rock Island, IL (date not stated)
* On leave 4/15/1863 (place not stated) (For horse)
* Sick 7/24/1863 (place not stated)
* POW 12/12/1863 Jonesville, VA
* Exchanged 3/2/1865 (place not stated)
* Paroled 4/30/1865 (place not stated)
Other Information:
born in Lee, VA
(Illiterate)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- The Virginia Regimental Histories Series

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George Seals enlisted as a Private in Captain Thomas S. Gibson's Company, Trigg's Battalion Partisan Rangers* September 27, 1862 at Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia, captured at Jonesville, Virginia December 12, 1863, transferred to Rock Island, Illinois prison camp arriving January 2, 1864, transferred for exchange March 2, 1865, paroled at Cumberland Gap, Kentucky April 30, 1865

*This company was successively designated as Captain Gibson's Company, Trigg's Battalion Partisan Rangers; Company G, 27th Battalion Virginia Cavalry; 25th Regiment Virginia Cavalry. [Compiled Service Records]

27th Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers
Organized with six companies ca. September 1, 1862.
Company G organized on September 27, 1862.
Company H organized on October 3, 1863.
Company I organized on April 18, 1863.
The 10th Company added and the battalion redesignated as the 25th Cavalry Regiment on July 8, 1864, per S.O. #159, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.

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25th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry

25th Cavalry Regiment was organized in July, 1864, using the 27th Battalion Virginia Partisan Rangers as its nucleus. Serving in McCausland's and Imboden's Brigade, the unit fought in numerous engagements in western Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. During April, 1865, it disbanded. Its commanders were Colonel Warren M. Hopkins, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Edmundson, and Major Sylvester R. McConnell.

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