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Federal (USV)

Private

George Johnson

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company D, 23rd New York Infantry on 6 May 1861 at age 23.

On the Campaign

He was detached for service with Battery B, 4th US Artillery and was with them when he was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. His role in the Battery at Antietam from Buell2.

Birth

c. 1838

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 20 (for the year 1899)  [AotW citation 10467]

2   Buell, Augustus, The Cannoneer: Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac, Washington: The National Tribune Company, 1890, pp. 18 - 20, 42  [AotW citation 10470]