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Federal (USV)

Private

George W. Saxton

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted in Doylestown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company C, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action just over a month later at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His birth date calculated from his age at death - 19 years & 17 days - on his stone at Richboro. He also has a stone in Antietam National Cemetery, as G.A. Saxton.

Birth

08/31/1843

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Union Cemetery, Richboro, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11193]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23905]

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