Captain George Hall Moffett (CSA)

Enlisted State of SC 26 Dec 1860 as a private in the Washington Light Infantry; entered Confederate service 24 Feb 1862 as private Company B, 25th Regiment, SCV. Promoted to 1st Lt and Adj on 30 Apr 1862. Served until 1865 when Johnson's Army surrendered.

George Hall Moffett was a merchant, whose high sense of honor and untiring energy contributed to his success in mercantile life and led to his promotion in military service. He entered the Confederate States army as a private, and was promoted for bravery on the field of battle. He became adjutant-general, Hagood's brigade, Twenty-fifth South Carolina volunteers, Confederate States army. His father had come from Scotland to Charleston in 1810. The family of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Henry (Simonton) Moffett, were from the north of Ireland, and as immigrants first settled in Pennsylvania, and later removed to South Carolina, where they were established before the French and Indian war.

His death was reported thus: A DREADFUL ACCIDENT. The community was shocked on Saturday last by the announcement that Capt. George H. Moffett, one of our best and highly respected citizens, had been fatally hurt by a fall from the second story piazza of his residence in Coming Street, nearly opposite St. Paul's Church. The accident occurred at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning. Capt. Moffett had been watching by the bedside of his son, who was sick, and was very much fatigued. Between 2 and 3 o'clock he was called to attend to his sick son, and after doing so he went out onto the piazza. While there he heard the dog barking on the first floor piazza, and, thinking that some one might have entered the premises, he leaned over the railing and attempted to look in the lower piazza. The railing being very low, he lost his balance and fell into the brick yard some thirty feet below. In the effort to catch the railing as he fell his wrist was broken, and in the fall his spine was dislocated. The fall was heard by Mrs. Moffett, who immediately came out to find her husband in mortal agony, but perfectly conscious. At his own instance he was allowed to remain until medical assistance was summoned, when he was carried into the house. Up to last evening Capt. Moffett was still alive, but his death was hourly expected.