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Federal (USV)

Private

George W. Catlin

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, from Branch County, he enlisted in Quincy as a Private in Company C, 16th Michigan Infantry on 24 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at Sharpsburg, MD on 26 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in or near Sharpsburg but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Michigan.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

10/26/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 3314]

2 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915 [AotW citation 25092]

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