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Federal (USV)

Private

George Quimby Whitney

(1843 - 1925)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old apprentice machinist in Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the little finger of his left hand action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and held at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 30 November 1864 and mustered out on 24 June 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a machinist in Hartford; a contractor for Pratt & Whitney in Hartford by 1890. He was active in the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Association, its Secretary, and in commemorating Connecticut men at Andersonville.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists, notably Frederick Clifton Pierce in his Descendants of John Whitney (1895), and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

More on the Web

His large collection of papers and photographs on the subject of the 16th Connecticut and the prison camp at Andersonville, GA is in the Connecticut State Library [finding aid PDF].

Birth

04/22/1843; Biddeford, ME

Death

08/04/1925; Hartford, CT; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT

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. 621  [AotW citation 27331]