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Federal (USV)

Private

George Burnside

(? - 1865)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 59th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company F.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Later promoted to Corporal. Captured, June 22nd/64 at Petersburg, VA. Died, January 3rd/65 at Salisbury, NC while POW.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the Report and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

Death

01/03/1865; Salisbury, NC

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, Issue 26 (for 1900)  [AotW citation 8639]