Reed, George Freeman
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 29, credited to Chelsea, VT Unit(s): 6th VT INF Service: drafted - enl 8/4/63, m/i 8/4/63, PVT, Co. H, 6th VT INF, pr CPL, pow, Cedar Creek, 10/19/64, prld 2/15/65, m/o 6/29/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 05/17/1834, Brookfield, VT Death: 12/04/1908 Burial: West Hill Cemetery, Chelsea, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 107746322 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 8/10/1868, VT; widow Jane M., 1/30/1909, VT 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 2nd Great Grandfather of Barbara Morin, North Franklin, CT (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice   West Hill Cemetery, Chelsea, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Obituary
Civil War Veteran Dead
George Freeman Reed died at his home in the west part of the town Friday, Dec. 4, at 1:30 p. m., aged 74 years., 6 mos., 17 days. He had been confined to the house for several months with Bright's disease, which was the termination of a complication of diseases contracted in his terrible suffering when a prisoner in the Civil war.
Comrade Reed was born in Brookfield, and in 1858 married Miss Jane Stevens, who survives him. He enlisted I n Co. H, 6th Regt., Vt. Vols., Aug, 4, 1863, and was taken prisoner at Cedar Creek, was conveyed first to Castle Thunder, where he remained only a few days, when he was transferred to Libby prison, where for 130 days he suffered all the horrors of that prison pen, with many other union soldiers. When captured he was a healthy, robust man, weighing 180 lbs.; when released, he was a broken old man and weighed only 90 lbs. His own wife did not recognize him when he reached home. From the day of his release from the prison until his death last Friday, he had never known a well day.
Source: Chelsea Herald, December 10, 1908.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.