Record #:

15466

Author(s):

Carraway, Gertrude

Abstract:

The youngest solider on either side during the American Civil War was a native North Carolinian, the late George H. Jacobs, of South Mills, who enlisted as a drummer boy in the Confederate army at the age of nine.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 46, Apr 1937, p19

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865