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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

George W. Mathews

Home State: Maryland

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Maryland Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company A.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Wilmer1. Enlisted as Sergeant in Company A, 5th Maryland Infantry on 12 September 1861. Appointed Regimental Commissary Sergeant, date not given. Captured in action at Winchester, VA on 15 June 1863. Mustered out 1 September 1865.

Notes

1 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, Vol. 1, pp. 181 - 184 [AotW citation 14241]

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