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Federal (USV)

Private

George Washington Chase

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A mule-spinner in Webster, he enlisted in Company H, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry at age 22 on 11 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

Absent in hospital when mustered out on 28 May 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Quint1.

Birth

c. 1839; Dudley, MA

Notes

1   Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, pp. 380 - 403  [AotW citation 14465]