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Federal (USV)

Private

George Carpenter

(1835 - 1915)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to Boston with his family as an infant and by 1860 was a 16 year old boot maker's son in Cambridgeport, MA. Age 20, a cabinet maker in Cambridge, he mustered as a Private in Company B, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 12 July 1861. He was wounded in the head at Ball's Bluff, VA on 21 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but was actually captured there.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Richmond, then a paroled prisoner in the camp at Annapolis, MD by 15 October 1862, and was discharged for disability on 6 January 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was again a cabinet maker, in Birmingham, Van Buren County, Iowa. He as admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Togus in September 1884. In 1900 he was living with his wife in Chelsea, ME and in 1910 was in Augusta, ME.

References & notes

Basic service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Julia A. Rome () in 1889.

His brother Daniel was killed at Antietam.

Birth

02/04/1835; Wiltshire, ENGLAND

Death

12/20/1915; Augusta, ME; burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Augusta, ME

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 141 - 204  [AotW citation 5617]

2   Harnwell, Susan, The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861 - 1864, Published 1997, first accessed 01 January 1999, <http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/>, Source page: /ma15mvi/Roster/p21.htm#i242  [AotW citation 27743]