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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Jacob Geayer

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20 years. Enlisted April 23, 1861 at New York City; mustered in as Sergeant, Company C, May 4, 1861, to serve two years. He was promoted First Sergeant on March 18, 1862.

On the Campaign

In his after-action report, Colonel Kimball said "I cannot close this report without calling your special attention to ... Sergeants Geayer, Stiles, Corporals Fields and Stephens (all wounded), Company C ..."

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his company May 20, 1863.

References & notes

Service data from State of New York1.

Birth

c. 1841

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. 673  [AotW citation 12632]