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Federal (USV)

Private

George H. Putney

(1837 - ?)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old carpenter in Monmouth, ME, he enlisted on 29 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 7th Maine Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled, then listed as a deserter on 20 May 1863 and dropped from the Company roll with no later military record.

References & notes

His status as missing at Antietam from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3

He married Frances E. Springer (1841-1938) in Kennebec County, ME and they had 8 children between 1862 and 1880.

Birth

03/1837; Boston, MA

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6694]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863 [AotW citation 27857]

3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29359]

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