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Federal (USV)

Private

George B. Smith

(c. 1842 - 1865)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Suffield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 2 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through his face which cut off his lower jaw in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 8 January 1863.

After the War

Dr. Harry Allen Grant (1813-1884), Connecticut State Surgeon General, is credited with saving Smith's life and largely reconstructing his face, but George died of typhoid fever in Enfield on 13 October 1865, just 23 years old.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1842

Death

10/13/1865; Enfield, CT; burial in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, 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. 650 - 663 [AotW citation 5531]

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, pg. 627 [AotW citation 27102]

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