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Federal (USV)

Private

George Hudson Keach, Jr.

(1841 - 1888)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old jeweler living in Thompsonville, Enfield, CT. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 5 April 1862, but was reduced to Private on 3 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was captured at Cox's Mills, VA on 25 August 1864. He was paroled on 28 February 1865 and mustered out on 8 June 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he worked in a watch factory in Waltham, MA.

References & notes

His service from the Record 1 with wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Clara Lacey (1841-1917) and they had 4 daughters between 1864 and 1882.

Birth

01/11/1841; Mendon, MA

Death

06/13/1888; Waltham, MA; burial in Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham, MA

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, p. 334 [AotW citation 30692]

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