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Federal (USV)

Private

George William Mitchell

(1842 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A farmer's son from Cheshire, CT, he enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 25 February 1864 but was killed at Petersburg, VA on 15 June 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/18/1842; Waterbury, CT

Death

06/15/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Old Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterbury, 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, p. 343 [AotW citation 30756]

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