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Whitfield, George E.
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 24, credited to Johnson, VT
Unit(s): 17th VT INF
Service: enl 2/26/64, m/i 3/2/64, Pvt, Co. C, 17th VT INF, kia, Wilderness, 5/6/64
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VITALS
Birth: abt 1840, Francestown, NH
Death: 05/06/1864
Burial: Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA
Marker/Plot: 7
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 5007073
Cenotaph: Johnson Plot Cemetery, Johnson, VT
Marker/Plot:
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Deanna French
Findagrave Memorial #: 140231165
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Jane C., 06/25/1864; minor, 11/12/1866; mother Alvira, 05/20/1891, NH, not approved
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
DESCENDANTS
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BURIAL:
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Fredericksburg National Cemetery, VA
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CENOTAPH:
Cenotaph in Johnson Plot Cemetery, Johnson, VTCheck the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may have cenotaphs there.
Obituary
Killed in the battle of Black Forest, May 12th, George E. Whitefield, of Johnson, formerly of Francestown, N.H., aged 24 years, 4 months and 12 days, a member of Co. C, 17th Vt. Regt.
He's gone - forever gone !
The one we loved so dear:
Far in a distant land he lies,
And never will come near.
Enlisted in his country's cause,
A soldier, brave was he;
But I shall never see his face -
O how it sorrows me.
We know he's gone to find his rest,
Far in that happy land.
Where we will try, some future day,
To join the heavenly band.Source: Lamoille Newsdealer, June 29, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.
