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Federal (USV)

Private

George Baldwin

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farm worker in Brooklyn, Windham County, CT. He enlisted on 3 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 5 October.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but paroled the same day.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 17 December 1862 to enlist in Harrisburg, PA as a Private in Battery E, 5th United States Artillery. He was listed as a deserter as of 1 June 1863.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Record 2 and the Registers.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1837; Brooklyn, CT

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 121 [AotW citation 16239]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 345 [AotW citation 30638]

3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 148, p. 6 [AotW citation 30639]

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