George Hogg McLoughlin

Then a 21 (24?) year old clerk, he enlisted for General US Army service on 21 February 1849 in New York City and advanced to First Sergeant of Battery M then D of the 3rd United States Artillery by February 1854. He was among the survivors of the disaster aboard the SS San Fransisco transporting the regiment to the Pacific coast in the hurricane of December 1853. He reenlisted in New York, as First Sergeant of Company E, 2nd US Infantry, on 12 May 1854 and was with them to 12 May 1859 and again from 15 August to 4 October 1861.

He was appointed First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 8th Iowa Infantry for war service in October but was discharged on 20 November 1861 to accept a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd US Infantry to date from 24 October. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 15 February 1862.

He commanded Company D of the 2nd US Infantry at Antietam.

He was Regimental Quartermaster 24 September 1862 to 1 December 1863 then promoted to Captain. He was seriously wounded in the left thigh at Gettysburg on 3 July 1863 and in hospitals in New York to at least September. He was honored by brevet to Major in August 1864 for gallant service on the North Anna River and in the campaign before Richmond.

He continued in Regular Army service to 31 December 1870 when he retired.

Service information from Heitman1 and the Register.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His death place from an announcement in the Army-Navy-Air Force Register of 3 March 1917.

1825; County Roscommon, IRELAND

02/26/1917; Birmingham, AL; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA