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Federal (USV)

Private

George Finnigan

(c. 1833 - 1910)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Rockville in Parke County, IN, he enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 6 November 1862.

After the War

By 1870 he was a day laborer back in Rockville, IN.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from the Indianapolis Sentinel of 27 September 1862, as G.W. Finney. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870.

He married Nancy Lambert (1835-) in November 1855 and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1833; Steubenville, OH

Death

1910

Notes

1   State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 274  [AotW citation 33628]