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Federal (USV)

Private

George H. Barmby

(c. 1841 - 1916)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the flesh of his left hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 18 November 1862 and was in Frederick to at least 5 January 1863. He was discharged for disability on 30 January 1863.

After the War

His veteran's pension was increased to $24 per month by an Act of Congress in 1914.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson1, who has him as George H. Baunby or Barmley. Service information from the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Henry Baimby. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

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. 126 [AotW citation 16322]

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, pg. 630 [AotW citation 27149]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.422 [AotW citation 27168]

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