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Federal (USV)

Private

George Garvy

(c. 1827 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 104th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35, he enlisted on 8 January 1862 at Troy and mustered as a Private in Company K, 104th New York Infantry on 8 March.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at the "Brown Stone" field hospital in Keedysville, MD on 30 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from the State of New York,1 which says he died on 24 September. Death date and hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1827

Death

09/30/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905  [AotW citation 7096]