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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

George Washington Orne

(1823 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 37 year old carpenter in Boston, he enlisted 21 April 1861 and was commissioned and mustered 2nd Lieutenant, Company A, 12th Massachusetts Infantry on 26 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at Suman's and the Market Street US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD but died there of wounds on 8 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Details from Cook3 and family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His monument has his death on 6 October.

He married Caroline Chamberlain (1830-1866) in Boston in February 1854 and they had 3 children: Mary Elizabeth (1854- >1910), G.W., Jr. (1857-1919), and Carrie Elizabeth (1860-1860).

Birth

12/01/1823; Corinth, VT

Death

10/08/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Westborough, 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, pg. 9 [AotW citation 6590]

2 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 #9, 36 [AotW citation 22147]

3 Cook, Benjamin F., and James Beale, History of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers (Webster regiment), Boston: Twelfth (Webster) Regiment Association, 1882, pp. 143, 157 [AotW citation 22148]

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