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Lieut. George P. Norvell, was born in Nicholasville, Ky., May 19, 1832, and died January 14, 1922, at Waverly, Mo. When two years his parents moved to Lynchburg, Va., and he settled at Waverly, Mo., in the spring of 1869. Comrade Norvell entered the Confederate army as a private in Company E, 11th Virginia Regiment of Infantry, Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, and at the reorganization in 1862 he was elected lieutenant. He was in the battle of Gettysburg, was taken prisoner, and kept in Fort Delaware for twelve months.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, March, 1922.
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