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Federal (USV)

Private

George S. Howe

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, from Hartford, where he'd worked on the Hartford Evening Press, he enlisted as Private in Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 22 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 1 October and sent back to his Company on 7 October 1862. He was discharged for disability on 31 January 1863.

References & notes

Service information from the Record.1 Wound and hospital information from the Patient List. 2 Occupation detail from Leslie L Gordon in her A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War (2014).

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 625 [AotW citation 27023]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #587 [AotW citation 27024]

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