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Federal (USV)
Private
George W. Carter
(1830 - 1887)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry
Before Antietam: A 32 year old resident of Newburyport, MA, he enrolled at Private, Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry, and mustered in August 1862. He was paid a $200 bounty by the town for enlisting.
On the Campaign: He was in action on South Mountain, and wounded in the left foot at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War: He was treated at the Locust Spring Hospital, Sharpsburg, and at hospitals in Frederick, MD and Washington, DC. He transferred to Company B, 18th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps 28 May 1864, and was discharged 17 June 1865.
After the War: He was a shipbuilder in Newburyport and was living there to at least 1884.
References & notes:
Service from Carruth: 1. Casualty details from Nelson. 2 Further information from the Massachusetts Historical Commission, in information [pdf] about his son's now historic house in Newburyport, and from George W. Creasey's The City of Newburyport in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 (1904). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His tombstone has his age at death as 59 years, 7 months, which would put his birth in May 1828.
Birth: 04/25/1830; Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Death: 12/16/1887; burial in Belleville Cemetery, Newburyport, MA
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS GLEANED FROM WEBSITE: http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=13972
Federal (USV)
Private
George W. Carter
(1830 - 1887)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry
Before Antietam: A 32 year old resident of Newburyport, MA, he enrolled at Private, Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry, and mustered in August 1862. He was paid a $200 bounty by the town for enlisting.
On the Campaign: He was in action on South Mountain, and wounded in the left foot at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War: He was treated at the Locust Spring Hospital, Sharpsburg, and at hospitals in Frederick, MD and Washington, DC. He transferred to Company B, 18th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps 28 May 1864, and was discharged 17 June 1865.
After the War: He was a shipbuilder in Newburyport and was living there to at least 1884.
References & notes:
Service from Carruth: 1. Casualty details from Nelson. 2 Further information from the Massachusetts Historical Commission, in information [pdf] about his son's now historic house in Newburyport, and from George W. Creasey's The City of Newburyport in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 (1904). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His tombstone has his age at death as 59 years, 7 months, which would put his birth in May 1828.
Birth: 04/25/1830; Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Death: 12/16/1887; burial in Belleville Cemetery, Newburyport, MA
Inscription
Aged 59 yrs. & 7 mos.
Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest.
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