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Federal (USV)

Private

George M. Kirk

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, from Pipestone, MI, he enlisted on 2 July 1862 in Niles, and mustered as Private, Company B, 17th Michigan Infantry on 26 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the chest in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 19 September, but he died there of wounds on 30 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from Record of Service.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/30/1862; 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 3736]

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, Vol. 17, pg. 58 [AotW citation 20191]

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 #4.178 [AotW citation 20192]

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