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(1834 - 1908)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A mechanic in Manchester, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862, the day before his 28th birthday.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through his hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
Physically the two represented opposite extremes, Maranthon [H. Keeney] short and slight, George tall and burly. As the evening of that bloody day approached and the firing slackened, men began to look about for their friends. Maranthon searched in vain for his companion. Darkness had now fallen and, obtaining a lantern, he went forward to the area where the regiment had been caught in the Confederate crossfire.
There, in a tangle of dead and wounded, he found George, severely wounded. Somehow Maranthon managed to lift the burly form of his friend upon his back and to stagger with his burden across a field pocked with shell holes and strewn with dead and wounded men to the place where his shattered regiment had found shelter.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital then admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 16 December 1862. He was discharged for disability there on 19 January 1863.
He enlisted again, for service in the US Army Signal Corps on 15 April 1864 in Boston. He was a member of a 56-man signal detachment sent to Fort Leavenworth, KS in June 1864 and he served on operations in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, then west to Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming on the Powder River Expedition, fighting Indians. He was mustered out with the rest of the detachment on 9 November 1865 at Fort Leavenworth.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a life and fire insurance agent in Manchester, CT.
References & notes
His service information from Ingersoll,1 the Record,2 the Registers,3 and Brown.4 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.5 The quote above from Dr. William E. Buckley's A New England Pattern: The History of Manchester, Connecticut (1973). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Harriett E "Hattie" Slocum (1844-1929) and they had 6 children between 1867 and 1878.
Birth
08/06/1834 in CT
Death
05/19/1908; in CT; burial in East Cemetery, Manchester, CT
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. 658 - 663 [AotW citation 5576]
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. 633 [AotW citation 27237]
3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 149, pg. 698 [AotW citation 27236]
4 Brown, J. Willard, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion, Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896, pp. 681-686, 709 [AotW citation 27238]
5 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 #389 [AotW citation 27239]