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Federal (USV)

Private

George W. Chaplin

(1835 - 1904)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, from Lapeer County, he enlisted there in Company G, Seventh Michigan Infantry on 6 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was discharged at the expiration of his term of service at Petersburg, VA on 22 August 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from the State of Michigan,1 as George W Chaplain. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Betsy L. Terry (1838-1902) in September 1865 and they had 5 children.

Birth

06/15/1835 in NY

Death

11/08/1904; Saginaw, MI; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Fowlerville, MI

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pp. 11 - 24 [AotW citation 12033]

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