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G.H. Washburn
(1843 - 1905)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 108th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted at age 19 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 108th New York Infantry on 11 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company at Anteitam on 17 Setpember 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA and later transferred to Company B, 20th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps. He served with them in medical and army headquarters jobs in at Washington, DC, until he was discharged there on 19 June 1865.
References & notes
More on the Web
See much more about Washburn in a post by regimental historian Brian Burkhart on Vicki Masters Profitt's Illuminated History. Mr Burkhart is also the source of his photograph.
Birth
10/29/1843; Rochester, NY
Death
01/27/1905; Rochester, NY; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester, NY
1 Washburn, George H., A Complete Military History and Record of the 108th Regiment N.Y. Vols., Rochester (NY): Press of E.R. Andrews, 1894, pp, 215 - 227 [AotW citation 8874]