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Federal (USV)

Private

George W. Hunt

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, a machinist from Clinton, he enlisted in Company C, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 12 July 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. He was discharged on 4 December 1863 for disability.

References & notes

Basic service information from Ingersoll1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2

He married Fannie S. Coulter (1844-) in April 1864 and had a son Frank; they divorced in October 1873.

Birth

c. 1842; Lowell, MA

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, Vol. 2, pp. 151 - 154 [AotW citation 5668]

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/p60.htm#i459 [AotW citation 27742]

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