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Federal (USV)

Private

George E. Burns

(1836 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 27, he was a carpenter from Grafton on enlistment on 30 July 1862 in Company G, 15th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the right thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Hoffman Farm Hospital, Sharpsburg, and at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, PA. He died of wounds on 15 November 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Casualty details from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/06/1836; Boston, MA

Death

11/15/1862; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Grafton, MA

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 5811]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 149 [AotW citation 16981]

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