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Federal (USV)

Private

George Creighton

(? - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Glastonbury, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 29 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 11 December 1864 with no later military record and it is likely he died on or before that date.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His stone is on Findagrave.

Death

1864; burial in Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 632 [AotW citation 27210]

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