George English

In 1860 he was a 14 year old farm worker on his widowed mother Catherine's place (or his grandfather John English's farm next door) at Wellsboro, Tioga County, PA. Giving his age as 18, he enlisted on 12 October 1861 in Wellsboro, and mustered into service as Private, Company I, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry 18 October in Harrisburg.

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, 3 weeks after his 17th birthday.

Next morning we buried our dead. In a trench a little above the old log house referred to [of farmer Daniel Wise] wrapped in their blankets we laid them tenderly away at the front of the hill they had helped to make immortal!

He was reinterred in the Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

Cemetery burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service information from the Card File,2 with the quote above from the History.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a cenotaph in Wellsboro.

08/24/1845; Wellsboro, PA

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD