George W. Detrick

(1839 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 23rd Ohio Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted in Company F of the 23rd Ohio Infantry on 5 June 1861 at Columbus, Ohio. He was 22 years old.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Photograph here is from a tintype including his brother Samuel taken in 1861, from the Liljenquist Collection at the Library of Congress. Service details from the Ohio Roster1.

Death Date: 09/14/1862 Death Place: Fox's Gap, Maryland Burial Place: Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 105 [AotW citation 7824]

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