George Griswold

Giving his age as 21, he enlisted in Albany, NY and mustered as a Private in Company B, First US Sharpshooters on 18 November 1861.

He was wounded by a piece of shell to his left wrist in a skirmish at Boteler's Ford on the Potomac River near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862.

He transferred to Company D on 24 August 1864 and was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 17 November 1864.

In 1865 he was a farmer living with his parents and 4 siblings on their farm at Tyrone, Schuyler County, NY, but by 1875 was a house carpenter at Wheeler in Steuben County, NY. He was a farmer there in 1880 and he was living in Mitchellville, Steuben County, NY at the 1890 US Veteran's Census. In 1900 he was a saloon keeper in Hornellsville, NY.

His service from Stevens1 and a Muster Roll extract from the NY State Archives, online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880 & 1900, and the New York State Census of 1865 & 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Alice Jenett Allington (1849-1921) and they had 3 children between 1874 and 1887.

c. 1843; Schuyler County, NY

03/14/1901; Hornellsville, NY; burial in Mitchellsville Cemetery, Wheeler, NY