From: Confederate Military History Extended Edition.  Edited by Gen. 
Clement A. Evans of Georgia.  Wilmington, NC. Broadfoot Publishing 
Company, 1987; pages 245-246.


*GEORGE H. MOFFATT*

George H. Moffatt, of Parkersburg, W. Va., is a descendant of an 
Augusta county family of worth and patriotic renown, which was 
founded by John Moffatt, an immigrant from the north of Ireland in 
1732, who settled in that county, on Moffatt's Creek. George Moffatt, 
the great-grandfather of Mr. Moffatt, served as captain of a 
volunteer company in the Indian wars, in the war of the Revolution 
was lieutenant-colonel of a Virginia regiment commanded by his 
brother-in-law, Col. Samuel McDowell, serving under Gen. Nathaniel 
Greene at King's Mountain, Cowpens, etc., and was for many years 
president of the county court and colonel of militia for Augusta 
county, which then extended from the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi. 
Mr. Moffatt was born at Huntersville, March 3, 1845, and was educated 
at Washington college, which he left in April, 1861, as a private in 
the Liberty Hall volunteers, a company subsequently assigned to the 
Fourth Virginia regiment, Stonewall brigade. With this command he 
participated in the first battle of Manassas, and afterward was 
transferred to the Bath squadron of the Eleventh Virginia cavalry. He 
was promoted sergeant in 1862, and sergeant-major in 1863. With the 
cavalry he participated in a great many battles, including McDowell, 
the Seven Days' campaign, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Harper's 
Ferry, Sharpsburg, Cheat River, Fairmount, Bridgeport, Brandy 
Station, Gettysburg, Hagerstown and other fights on the retreat 
through Maryland, Jack's Shop, Bristoe Station, Droop Mountain and 
Salem. He was slightly wounded at First Manassas and again at Jack's 
Shop. On December 21, 1863, he was captured on the Greenbrier river, 
by Averell's troops, and from that time until long after the 
surrender at Appomattox was held as a prisoner, at Camp Chase and 
Fort Delaware, finally being released June 20, 1865. After this he 
farmed, taught school and studied law in Pocahontas county, and 
completing his reading under the late Governor Price at Lewisburg, 
was admitted to the bar in 1868. After practicing law at Huntersville 
until 1875, he removed to Wheeling and purchased an interest in the 
Wheeling Register, which he edited until the fall of 1884. He then 
accepted the editorial management of the St. Paul Globe, resigning in 
1891 to become general manager of the Telegram at Portland, Oregon. 
During 1895-96 he was a traveling correspondent of the Cincinnati 
Enquirer, with headquarters at Washington.  He then took the position 
of associate counsel and claim agent of the Ohio River railroad, with 
headquarters at Parkersburg. He was a member of the West Virginia 
constitutional convention of 1872; served from 1879 to 1883 in the 
legislature of that State, in the session of 1879-80 as speaker of 
the house; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 
1884, and was chosen a delegate in 1888 from St. Paul; was a delegate 
in 1889 from Minnesota, and in 1893 from Oregon to the Trans-
Mississippi Congress; and in 1892 was chairman of the committee 
selected by the city of Portland which visited the Federal capital 
and secured the approval of plans for a bridge over the Willamette 
river, which had been refused the sanction of the government 
engineers.