George William Berry

In 1860 he was a 20 year old printer living with printer Michael B Wells and his family in Richmond, VA. He enlisted there 27 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 15th Virginia Infantry. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant at the army reorganization on 26 April 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot through the upper part of both thighs, his right femur broken, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and was captured.

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 30 September by Surgeon John Rauch (probably at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD), admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 25 November, and sent on to Baltimore on 13 December 1862. He was exchanged at Aikens' Landing, VA on 8 November 1862. He was absent from his company in hospitals and on wounded furlough to at least June 1863, then detailed as a Enrolling Officer. He was on that duty until formally retired from active service to the Invalid Corps on 23 July 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Richmond, VA on 20 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a printer living with his in-laws in Baltimore, MD and in 1880, still a printer, had his own household with his second wife in Baltimore. In 1900 he was still a working printer and lived with his daughter Eugenia and her husband, and daughter Loretta in (nephew? brother-in-law?) James Wells' home in Baltimore.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed as George Wm Berry. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 which has him in the 16th Virginia. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eugenia Wells (1844-1872) in 1867 and they had at least 2 children. He married again, Mary C. (?; 1844-before 1900) by about 1876 and they had at least 2 more.

04/05/1840 in VA

10/19/1907; Pikesville, MD; burial in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD