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(1838 - 1907)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America in 1852, and was a 23 year old cigar maker in Boston when he enlisted on 22 August 1861 at Camp Massasoit in Readville, MA and mustered as a Private in Company B, 20th Massachusetts Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was a prisoner in Richmond, VA by 28 September and paroled at Aikens' Landing, VA on 6 October. He was in the parole camp at Annapolis, MD by the 13th, but listed as a deserter from the camp after 15 November 1862 and did not return to his company.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was making cigars in East Windsor, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Massachusetts Adjutant General1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Inquiries about his military service in the 1880s refer to him as George Green. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Kate S (?, 1847-1941) and they had 3 children between 1868 and 1872.
Birth
03/1838 in GERMANY
Death
1907; burial in Springdale Cemetery, East Windsor, CT
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35 [AotW citation 34425]
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 34426]