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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

George S. Gouge

(1834 - 1901)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, First Connecticut Infantry for three months' service on 16 April 1861 and was mustered out on 31 July. He enrolled again, as First Lieutenant of Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietiam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission on 24 December 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary S Waters (1844-1915) in 1864 and they had a son George L Gouge (1877-1924)

Birth

1834

Death

01/10/1901; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 647 - 663 [AotW citation 5501]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pp. 5, 623 [AotW citation 27031]

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