George Baylor (1842-1902)
Birth: February 13, 1842; "Wood End," Jefferson County, Virginia
Death: March 6, 1902 (age 60); Charleston, West Virginia
Military Service: CSA, 1861-65
Unit: 2nd Virginia Infantry; 12th Virginia Calvary; Mosby's Rangers
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1860); Washington and Lee (Class of 1867)
George Baylor was born on February 13, 1842 at "Wood End," Jefferson County, Virginia. He was one of three sons of Colonel Robert William Baylor, who led the Virginia cavalry militia in defense of Harper's Ferry during John Brown's Raid in October 1859. The younger Baylor was schooled at the Charlestown Academy and enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1857. There, he became a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society. He graduated with his class in the early summer of 1860 and took a position as an assistant teacher under his old academy instructor, R. Jaquelin Ambler, at the Clifton High School near Markham in Farquier County, Virginia until 1861.