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Federal (USV)

Private

George Camsell

(c. 1827 - 1874)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded by gunshots to his side and hip (or shin) in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 1 October and transferred to the GH at Camp B there on 5 January 1863. He was sent on to the convalescent camp at Alexandria, VA on 2 March 1863. He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson1 and Major Ward's after-action report. Hospital details from the Patient List,2 as George Gamsill. His service from the Record.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave; his government headstone was provided in 1879.

Birth

c. 1827

Death

05/31/1874; in MA; burial in Park Street Cemetery, Florence, MA

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. 154 [AotW citation 17113]

2 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 #s 585 & 1.325 [AotW citation 30834]

3 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. 357 [AotW citation 30658]

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