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Federal (USV)

Private

George Gideon Brockett

(1844 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

He went to Wisconsin from Indiana with his family at about age 3 in 1847, and in 1860 was a 16 year old farm worker living with his parents and 4 siblings on the family farm at Williamstown/Mayville in Dodge County, WI. He enlisted on 5 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

His service from Bryant1 and the Roster.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. Thanks to Joel Brockett Morey for George's birthdate, correction to his surname, and the poke to look further into him.

Birth

05/12/1844; Columbus, IN

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 421 - 423 [AotW citation 15236]

2 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, p. 404 [AotW citation 33124]

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