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Federal (USV)

Corporal

George C. Oliver

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 111th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered into service as Corporal in Company D, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry on 24 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD in October and briefly in December 1862. He was captured at Peach Tree Creek, VA on 20 July 1864 with no further record.

References & notes

Basic information from Bates1. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 10980]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #403 [AotW citation 21667]

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