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Federal (USV)

Private

George Lawrence

(c. 1841 - 1922)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old farmer in Madison, he mustered as Private, Company I, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 January 1864 and transferred to Company H, 70th Indiana Infantry on 4 November 1864 in Atlanta. He was consolidated into Company C, 33rd Indiana Infantry in Washington, DC on 6 June 1865 and mustered out with them on 21 July.

After the War

He died at the National Soldiers' Home in Kecoughtan, VA in 1922 about age 82.

References & notes

Service from Brown1 and the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

04/20/1922; Kecoughtan, VA

Notes

1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 618 [AotW citation 18788]

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