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G.A. Batchelder
(c. 1830 - 1875)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Division, 5th Corps
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 30 year old jeweler living with his widowed mother in Woburn, MA. He enrolled in Boston, MA on 4 September 1861 and mustered the same day in Lynnfield as First Lieutenant of Company I, 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. He was detailed to General Porter's staff as Division Ordnance Officer on 13 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was assigned as Ordnance Officer of the First Division, Fifth Army Corps on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain in the 22nd Massachusetts on 26 September and transferred to Company G on 10 November 1862. He mustered out with them on 17 October 1864. He was appointed Additional Paymaster of Volunteers on 7 March 1865 and mustered out from that post on 5 October 1866.
After the War
He was Secretary of the Dakota Territory (1870-1872), living in Yankton, DT, and died of tuberculosis in Washington, DC on 18 May 1875.
References & notes
His service from Heitman1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the MOLLUS Massachusetts Collection.3
He married Ann (?) and they had a daughter in 1849. He married again, Dorcas Ann Atherton (1829-1856) in June 1853. He married, thirdly, Sarah Jane Hamlin (1842-1878), only daughter of President Lincoln's first Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, in February 1865, and they had a son Arthur.
More on the Web
He wrote A Sketch of the History and Resources of Dakota Territory in 1870; a later reprint edition is online from the Hathi Trust.
Birth
c. 1830; Boston, MA
Death
05/18/1875; Washington, DC; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, p. 198 [AotW citation 33079]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33080]
3 US Army, Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)-Massachusetts Photograph Collection, Published 2009, <https://arena.usahec.org/web/arena>, Source page: Vol. 96, p.4935 [AotW citation 33081]
