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Federal (USV)

Surgeon

George Hopkins Humphreys

(1835 - 1898)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Medical

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

25 years old, he enrolled on 4 May 1861 at New York City and mustered in as Surgeon of the 9th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He treated wounded soldiers at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and afterward, probably at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm, and later in Frederick, MD.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with the regiment on May 1863.

References & notes

Service data from State of New York.1 His presence on the Campaign from Graham2. Further details from his gravesite on Findagrave.

Birth

12/18/1835

Death

04/1898; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pg. 690 [AotW citation 12605]

2 Graham, Matthew John, The Ninth Regiment, New York Volunteers (Hawkins' Zouaves), New York: E.P. Coby & Company, Printers, 1900, pg. 300 [AotW citation 12606]

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