G. Adams

Federal (USV)

Private

George Adams

(C. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He stated he was a 19 year old porter residing in Fitchburg when he mustered as Private in Company B of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 12 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to the chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 26 September but died there on 3 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which says he died on 7 October, with details and photo used here from Susan Harnwell and contributors at her superb 15th Massachusetts Infantry site. She credits Leon Basile for the picture. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Birth

C. 1842; Winchendon, MA

Death

10/03/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3146]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #530 [AotW citation 25985]

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