George Addison Sherwood

Son of physician Solomon P Sherwood (1797-1859), from Knox County, IN, he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company G, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #2 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and transferred to GH #5 on 9 October. His leg was amputated on 28 October and he was discharged there for disability on 13 December 1862. He began receiving a pension for disability in April 1863.

He had a dental practice in Burlington, WI in the late 1860s and 1870s. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a dentist in Chicago, IL. He had retired there by 1910.

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880-1910, and the Burlington Historian (March 2009) online from the Burlington Historical Society. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nora F Crowley (1836-1909) in 1868 and they had 4 children. His son George, Jr. married Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of Thomas, another member of Company G of the 14th Indiana.

02/11/1840; Morristown, NY

02/13/1915; Chicago, IL; burial in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL