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Sherman, George C.
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 18, credited to Alburgh, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 7/18/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. K, 11th VT INF, pow, Weldon Railroad, 6/23/64, Andersonville, prld 2/22/65, m/o 7/4/65
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VITALS
Birth: 1844, Alburgh, VT
Death: 10/26/1935
Burial: Island Hill Cemetery, Buskirk, NY
Marker/Plot: Lot L Plot #40
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 40412834
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 5/7/1884, NY
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
Remarks: None
Webmaster's Note: The 11th Vermont Infantry was also known as the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery; the names were used interchangably for most of its career
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BURIAL:
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Island Hill Cemetery, Buskirk, NY
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George C. Sherman
Bennington Banner
Oct. 31, 1935Vermont Civil War
Veteran Dies at 91One of the few surviving Vermonters who served in the Civil war, George Sherman, 91, died Saturday night at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Blanche Kirk at Brunswick, NY. He was born in Alburg, the son of Theodore Sherman and Ann Clifton Sherman and enlisted in Company K, 11th Vermont volunteers under Capt. G. W. Saules, July 18, 1862. He was later transferred to the heavy artillery.
While in the service which included participation in the battles of Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and other engagements, he was twice captured by Confederates and confined in southern prisons. He was first sent to Andersonville from which he was released only to be again made a prisoner and be confined in Libby Prison until the remainder of the war.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau
