George E. Tyler

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker living with his parents and 4 siblings in Concord, Lake County, OH. He enlisted and mustered as a Sergeant in Company I, 23rd Ohio Infantry on 22 May 1861 in Cleveland.

He was wounded in the right arm in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain ...

... where on the 14th [of September 1862] was made the Glorious Charge of the 12th + 23rd O.V.S. against the 12th & 23rd North Carolina under the Rebel Genl Garland who was killed. They had a strong position of which they fought desperately to hold but The Buckeyes were to much for the N.Ca. Chivalry. They broke + fled with a heavy loss of killed + Prisoners. It was on this charge I received a wound from which I lost my Arm ...

His arm was amputated and he was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 19 September. He was sent on to Baltimore on 31 October and discharged for wounds on 8 November 1862.

He was a huckster, a janitor in the Post Office, and by 1880, court bailiff in Cleveland. He then had a fruit farm in East Cleveland to at least 1900.

His service from the State of Ohio.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 The quote above from a letter of 24 September 1865 he wrote entering a left-hand penmanship contest, now at the Library of Congress. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and his death notice in the Painesville Telegraph of 31 August 1905. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

04/1838 in NY

08/26/1905; Cleveland, OH; burial in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH