George Quimby Whitney

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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].

04/22/1843; Biddeford, ME

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