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Federal (USV)

Private

George W. Groves

(? - 1862)

Home State: West Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th West Virginia Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted as a Private in Company D, 7th (West) Virginia Volunteers on 22 August 1861 in Wellsburg.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, which says he was killed outright at Antietam. Hospital and death details from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862.

Death

09/19/1862; 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 3579]

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