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Federal (USV)

Private

George Washington Foor

(c. 1818 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 107th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 44 year old farmer in Bradford County, he enlisted there on 4 February 1862 and mustered into service as Private, Company H, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 February in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ann Cooper (1825-1880) in 1841 and they had 7 children.

His cousin Jonathan S. Foor (1839-1908) was in the same Company and was wounded at Turner's Gap on 14 September.

Birth

c. 1818

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Rays Cove Christian Church, Breezewood, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 10885]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23723]

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