George Washington Maphis
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George
W. Maphis with wife Virginia,
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George was born
in Virginia in January 1838, one of 15 children born to George Maphis Sr.
and Elizabeth (Lantz) Maphis.
He had a fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair and was 5 feet, 11 inches tall. George enlisted in Hampshire County, WV on October 1, 1862 in what became the 18th Virginia Cavalry. He was a Private in Company “K”, commanded by Capt. John H. Piles, and was with the 18th when they saw action at Gettysburg, New Market, Piedmont, Lynchburg, Winchester and Fisher's Hill. |
| On
July 4, 1864, George W. Maphis was wounded in the hand during an
unsuccessful attempt by the 62nd Mounted Infantry and the 18th
Virginia Cavalry to destroy the Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge.
The bridge was located at Greenspring in Hampshire County near
the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac.
At the close of the war George W. Maphis was paroled on April 28, 1865 at Winchester, VA. He and Virginia Wilson were united in marriage on August 17, 1865 in Hampshire Co., WV. They raised five children on their farm in the Capon District of Hardy Co, WV. George died in 1919 and is buried beside of his wife, Virginia, in the Lutheran Ebenezer Church Cemetery Rio, Hampshire Co., WV. |
