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Federal (USV)

Private

George McFarlan

(1843 - 1920)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted in Reading on 5 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company B, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 19 May 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Bates,1 as George McFarlen, and the Register,2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1843

Death

02/08/1920; burial in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23964]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23965]

3 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. 311 [AotW citation 23966]

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