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Federal (USV)

Private

George Saxton Wilcox

(1842 - 1921)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A Berkshire (MA) farmer's son, giving his residence as Wallingford, CT, he enlisted on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He had three fingers amputated, was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in Frederick, MD on 1 October, and was discharged for disability on 22 December 1862.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a (metal?) caster and worked in a spoon shop in Wallingford. By 1900 he was a joiner there and in 1910 worked in a cement factory. In 1920 he was a mechanic in a tool factory in Meriden, CT, still working at age 77.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ellen Grace Boardman (1842-1917) in April 1866.

Birth

04/24/1842; Lee, MA

Death

1921; Meriden, CT; burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, 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. 358 [AotW citation 30812]

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 #1 [AotW citation 30813]

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