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George Wilson Puffer

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George Wilson Puffer

Birth
Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois, USA
Death
19 Aug 1864 (aged 13)
Columbus, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
C-3168-6
Memorial ID
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Served three months in Co. H., 141st Ill. Regt. in the Civil War and died of chronic diarrhea, unmarried, in the military hospital at Columbus, KY. He was mustered in at Camp Kane, St. Charles, IL and at 4'9" he was small but he had lied about his age and said he was 15.

The "Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865" show his death at Columbus, KY from 'chronic diarrhea'. He was disintered at Columbus, KY and reinterred at Mound City National Cemetery.
Served three months in Co. H., 141st Ill. Regt. in the Civil War and died of chronic diarrhea, unmarried, in the military hospital at Columbus, KY. He was mustered in at Camp Kane, St. Charles, IL and at 4'9" he was small but he had lied about his age and said he was 15.

The "Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865" show his death at Columbus, KY from 'chronic diarrhea'. He was disintered at Columbus, KY and reinterred at Mound City National Cemetery.


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