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Federal (USV)

Private

George P. Ewing

(1844 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Bochester and mustered in as Private, Company G, 108th New York Infantry on 25 July 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted Corporal on 1 March 1863 and Sergeant on 1 January 1865. He mustered out with the Company on 28 May 1865 at Bailey's Crossroads, VA.

After the War

He moved from Rochester, NY to Michigan in 1870, then in 1885 to Cheyenne (later part of Deuel) County, Nebraska. He homesteaded, farmed and ranched there.

References & notes

Basic information from Washburn1. Service details from the State of New York2. Further details from a bio sketch in Compendium of History Reminiscence & Biography of Western Nebraska , Alden Publishing Company, Chicago: 1909, pp. 1012-13, online from USGenNet.

Birth

02/17/1844; Trenton, NY

Notes

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. 253 - 263 [AotW citation 8912]

2 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 34 (for the year 1903), pg. 213 [AotW citation 9051]

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