George Camp
George Camp was born around 1842 in Woodford, Vermont, to Jonas and Derexa Camp. He grew up and attended school in Woodford, and his father died around 1850. By the early 1860s, he was working as a shingle maker.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on July 26, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Company E of the 10th Vermont Infantry on September 1. According to his service records, he was 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with black hair and black eyes. In August 1863, he dismissed the Civil War as a “damd [n----r] war” and predicted that “peas will be declared [in] les then 3 months.” He assured his sister Mary that, “if I once git out of the harnis they [won’t] git me again.” He reportedly “fell sick on the march from Mine Run to Brandy Station” on December 2, 1863, and Confederate forces captured him later that day. He spent the next few months imprisoned in Richmond, Virginia. He died there of pneumonia on March 7, 1864.
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(1581)Camp, George18421864-03-07
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 14

  • (3713) [writer] ~ George Camp to Moses Wallens, 21 October 1862
  • (5484) [writer] ~ George Camp to Mary Camp, 23 August 1863
  • (5485) [writer] ~ George Camp to Unknown, 29 August 1863
  • (5486) [writer] ~ George Camp to Unknown, 4 October 1863
  • (5487) [writer] ~ George Camp to Nancy Camp, 12 April 1863
  • (5488) [writer] ~ George Camp to Unknown, 29 April 1863
  • (5489) [writer] ~ George Camp to Mary Camp, 9 July 1863
  • (5490) [writer] ~ George Camp to Unknown, 28 July 1863
  • (5491) [writer] ~ George Camp to Unknown, 22 July 1863
  • (5492) [writer] ~ George Camp to Unknown, undated
  • (8017) [writer] ~ George Camp to Derexa Wallens et al., 7 April 1863
  • (8018) [writer] ~ George Camp to Unknown, 24 October 1863
  • (8020) [writer] ~ George Camp to Merritt Barber, 29 January 186X
  • (8021) [writer] ~ George Camp to Mary Camp et al., 20 September 186X

People - Records: 4

  • (1582) Camp, Mary is the [sibling of] (1581) Camp, George
  • (1583) Camp, Nancy is the [sibling of] (1581) Camp, George
  • (2931) Wallens, Moses is the [step-parent of] (1581) Camp, George
  • (2932) Wallens, Derexa is the [parent of] (1581) Camp, George

Places - Records: 2

  • (1296) [birth] ~ Woodford, Bennington County, Vermont
  • (42) [death] ~ Richmond, Virginia

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (312) [enlisted] [E] ~ 10th Vermont Infantry
SOURCES

Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records of George Camp, available from Fold3.com; George Camp to Mary Camp, 23 August 1863, Nau Collection.