From: Confederate Military History Extended Edition.  Edited by Gen. 
Clement A. Evans of Georgia.  Wilmington, NC. Broadfoot Publishing 
Company, 1987; pages 191-192.

ADDITIONAL SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SERVICES OF OFFICERS AND 
PRIVATES AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA.

*LIEUTENANT GEORGE S. FEENEY*

Lieutenant George S. Feeney, prominently connected with the
wholesale trade in Wheeling, W. Va., was born in that city in the
year 1841.  In the fall of 1861 he entered the Confederate service
as a private in Company G of the Twenty-seventh Virginia regiment.
With the battles and campaigns of this command he was identified
until just after the arduous campaign against McClellan before
Richmond, when he was seized with typhoid fever, and disabled
for some time for active duty. About three months after this
illness began he was able to accept duty upon the staff of Maj.
J. C. Johnson, with the rank of first lieutenant, to which be 
was promoted in recognition of his gallant and meritorious services. 
He served in the department of southwest Virginia and east Tennessee 
during the remainder of the war, was surrendered at the close with 
the army of General Johnston and was paroled at Augusta, Ga. The 
prominent battles in which he was engaged were those of Stonewall 
Jackson's corps in the Shenandoah valley, Kernstown, Port Republic, 
Cross Keys, Winchester, and Front Royal, and the Seven Days' fighting 
before Richmond. He was once captured by the enemy near Bristol, 
Tenn., and was recaptured near Jonesboro within a week. Soon after 
his parole he returned to Wheeling, where he has resided since, 
except two years spent at Cincinnati, and is now engaged in the 
wholesale grocery business. Mr. Feeney is the son of Hugh P. Feeney, 
born in Ireland in 1797, who came to America in early manhood, 
settling first at Louisville, Ky., where he engaged in mercantile 
business. Subsequently residing at Montezuma, Ind., he was elected to 
the State senate about 1828. He made his home at Wheeling about 1840, 
served as chief clerk in the post office many years, and was 
appointed postmaster by President Buchanan, after which he served as 
city clerk until 1872, the year of his death. While a citizen of 
Kentucky he was appointed in 1821 second lieutenant of militia and in 
1824 captain of light artillery by Governor Adair. In 1829 he was 
commissioned by Gov. James B. Ray lieutenant-colonel of the Fiftieth 
regiment, Indiana militia.
 

(Linda Fluharty)