Private, Company F, 5th Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.
Guy was hit by a musket ball in his femur on December 13 at the Battle of Fredericksburg. On the 16th the leg was amputated just above the wound. He survived the surgery but on the 22nd gangrene set in. On the 25th a higher amputation took place. It was for naught and he died December 27th at the Douglas Hospital (2nd & I Street) in Washington, DC.
Name Barrett Guy Y.
Company Unit F 5 New Hampshire Inf.
Rank - Induction Private
Rank - Discharge Private
Notes Box # 1739
Extraction # 1739
Record # 1739
Allegiance Union
Battle at Antietam, Maryland on 17 September 1862
Battle at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on 15 October 1862
Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia on 13 December 1862
CLAREMONT WAR HISTORY, WITH SKETCHES OF NE HAMPSHIRE REGIMENTS BY OTIS F.R. WAITE, 1868; p 98-99:
At the battle of Antietam, on the 17th September, 1862, the Fifth rendered good service, and lost heavily in killed and wounded. From three hundred and nineteen officers and men who went into the fight, one hundred and eighty were killed and wounded. .... It was during this battle that the regiment earned the name of "The Fighting Fifth."
... was in the great battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th of December, where it met with a loss of one hundred and eighty-six officers and men, in killed and wounded.
His only son Guy Leston Barrett was raised by Rosette Barrett Smith.
Guy was hit by a musket ball in his femur on December 13 at the Battle of Fredericksburg. On the 16th the leg was amputated just above the wound. He survived the surgery but on the 22nd gangrene set in. On the 25th a higher amputation took place. It was for naught and he died December 27th at the Douglas Hospital (2nd & I Street) in Washington, DC.
Name Barrett Guy Y.
Company Unit F 5 New Hampshire Inf.
Rank - Induction Private
Rank - Discharge Private
Notes Box # 1739
Extraction # 1739
Record # 1739
Allegiance Union
Battle at Antietam, Maryland on 17 September 1862
Battle at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on 15 October 1862
Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia on 13 December 1862
CLAREMONT WAR HISTORY, WITH SKETCHES OF NE HAMPSHIRE REGIMENTS BY OTIS F.R. WAITE, 1868; p 98-99:
At the battle of Antietam, on the 17th September, 1862, the Fifth rendered good service, and lost heavily in killed and wounded. From three hundred and nineteen officers and men who went into the fight, one hundred and eighty were killed and wounded. .... It was during this battle that the regiment earned the name of "The Fighting Fifth."
... was in the great battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th of December, where it met with a loss of one hundred and eighty-six officers and men, in killed and wounded.
His only son Guy Leston Barrett was raised by Rosette Barrett Smith.
Private, Company F, 5th Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.
Guy was hit by a musket ball in his femur on December 13 at the Battle of Fredericksburg. On the 16th the leg was amputated just above the wound. He survived the surgery but on the 22nd gangrene set in. On the 25th a higher amputation took place. It was for naught and he died December 27th at the Douglas Hospital (2nd & I Street) in Washington, DC.
Name Barrett Guy Y.
Company Unit F 5 New Hampshire Inf.
Rank - Induction Private
Rank - Discharge Private
Notes Box # 1739
Extraction # 1739
Record # 1739
Allegiance Union
Battle at Antietam, Maryland on 17 September 1862
Battle at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on 15 October 1862
Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia on 13 December 1862
CLAREMONT WAR HISTORY, WITH SKETCHES OF NE HAMPSHIRE REGIMENTS BY OTIS F.R. WAITE, 1868; p 98-99:
At the battle of Antietam, on the 17th September, 1862, the Fifth rendered good service, and lost heavily in killed and wounded. From three hundred and nineteen officers and men who went into the fight, one hundred and eighty were killed and wounded. .... It was during this battle that the regiment earned the name of "The Fighting Fifth."
... was in the great battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th of December, where it met with a loss of one hundred and eighty-six officers and men, in killed and wounded.
His only son Guy Leston Barrett was raised by Rosette Barrett Smith.
Guy was hit by a musket ball in his femur on December 13 at the Battle of Fredericksburg. On the 16th the leg was amputated just above the wound. He survived the surgery but on the 22nd gangrene set in. On the 25th a higher amputation took place. It was for naught and he died December 27th at the Douglas Hospital (2nd & I Street) in Washington, DC.
Name Barrett Guy Y.
Company Unit F 5 New Hampshire Inf.
Rank - Induction Private
Rank - Discharge Private
Notes Box # 1739
Extraction # 1739
Record # 1739
Allegiance Union
Battle at Antietam, Maryland on 17 September 1862
Battle at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on 15 October 1862
Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia on 13 December 1862
CLAREMONT WAR HISTORY, WITH SKETCHES OF NE HAMPSHIRE REGIMENTS BY OTIS F.R. WAITE, 1868; p 98-99:
At the battle of Antietam, on the 17th September, 1862, the Fifth rendered good service, and lost heavily in killed and wounded. From three hundred and nineteen officers and men who went into the fight, one hundred and eighty were killed and wounded. .... It was during this battle that the regiment earned the name of "The Fighting Fifth."
... was in the great battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th of December, where it met with a loss of one hundred and eighty-six officers and men, in killed and wounded.
His only son Guy Leston Barrett was raised by Rosette Barrett Smith.
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