George W. Maxwell

He enlisted in Philadelphia on 18 September 1861 and mustered there on 31 October as a Private in Company N, 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was killed in action at Antietam:

... he fell at his post while the regiment was advancing in line of battle to meet the enemy on the morning of the 17th of September 1862 ... he received a ball through the heart and expired a few moments afterward.

... his grave is marked with his name & regt. It is on the Sharpsburg Turnpike about one mile this side of Sharpsburg.

His widowed mother Elizabeth applied for a pension based on her son's service in February 1863.

His service basics from the Index to his Compiled Service Records, US National Archives (NARA), and his Pension Card, online from fold3. His death details from an 11 October 1862 letter Lt. John Holahan, commanding the company, wrote his mother; it accompanied his mother's pension application, and was kindly supplied by Jim Buchanan (of the Walking the West Woods blog). Additional details from that pension application file, also online from fold3; some pension documents list him in Company A.

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD