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Federal (USV)

Private

George F. Wakefield

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, a machinist in Cambridge, he enlisted in Boston on 7 August 1862 and mustered the same day as a Private in Company B, 13th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His memorial in Newburyport, MA is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842; Boston, MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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. 79 - 84 [AotW citation 6896]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34713]

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