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Federal (USV)

Private

William Byrum George

(c. 1827 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 134th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35, from Butler County, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 134th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 4 November but died there of typhoid pneumonia on 18 November 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 History.1 His service from Bates.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1827

Death

11/18/1862; 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 3543]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 25109]

3 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 #321 [AotW citation 25110]

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