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(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a recently-orphaned 18 year old student living with the Kent family on their farm in Litchfield, CT. He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as Corporal, Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
A member of the Color Guard, he was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, shot in the right arm and into his side. He died very early the next day.
References & notes
More on the Web
See much more about George Booth's death and burial from a fine post by John Banks on his Civil War blog.
Birth
c. 1840; Litchfield, CT
Death
09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in West Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12535]
2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 342 [AotW citation 25991]