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Federal (USV)

Private

George F. Whitney

(1845 - 1892)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 17 year old clerk in Stafford, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured on 20 April 1864 at Plymouth, NC and was a prisoner at Andersonville. He was paroled, date not given, and was discharged at the Parole Camp, Annapolis, MD on 20 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record 1 with details from Gordon.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in 1842.

Birth

05/04/1845; Grafton, MA

Death

06/29/1892; Denver, CO

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. 636 [AotW citation 27322]

2 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27323]

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