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Federal (USV)

Private

George Edward Burns

(1823 - 1863)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 39, an operative from Sutton, he enlisted in Company K, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 1 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was mortally wounded in the right thigh in action 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PAand died at the Division hospital in Gettysburg on 14 July 1863.

References & notes

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

He married Mary J (?, 1823-) and they had 3 children between 1848 and 1852. He married again, Ann Winter (c. 1827-1863) and they had a son George (b.c. 1859).

Birth

01/31/1823; Lenox, MA

Death

07/14/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA

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. 176 - 186 [AotW citation 5810]

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/p19.htm#i1087 [AotW citation 27737]

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