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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

George A. Phillips

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 32nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Amsterdam to serve two years and mustered as Private, Company B, 32nd New York Infantry on 31 May. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Burkittsville, MD on 18 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/18/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Green Hill Cemetery, Amsterdam, NY

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 21, pg. 980 [AotW citation 22549]

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