George Langdon
George Langdon was born around 1836 in Pennsylvania to David and Charity Langdon. His father was a lumberman who owned $5,000 of real estate and $576 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Burnside, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine Baum on February 28, 1857, and they had at least four children: Emily, born around 1857; Ellen, born on February 2, 1859; Marietta, born on July 6, 1860; and Delia, born on February 7, 1862. They lived in Burnside, Pennsylvania, and Langdon worked as a laborer. By 1860, he owned $200 of personal property.
He enlisted in the Union army on September 10, 1861, and he mustered in as a corporal in Company D of the 78th Pennsylvania Infantry. On Octoer 1, 1862, according to one writer, he accidentally shot himself while “returning from a skirmish with the enemy.” Surgeons amputated the arm, but he died in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 10, 1862.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3124) | Langdon, George | 1836 | 1862-10-10 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Corporal
- Rank out: Corporal
- Rank highest: Corporal
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (3754) [writer] ~ George Langdon and David Langdon to Norman Langdon, 18 December 1861
People - Records: 2
- (3124) Langdon, George is the [aunt/uncle of] (3125) Langdon, Norman
- (3126) Langdon, David is the [sibling of] (3124) Langdon, George
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (467) [enlisted] [D] ~ 78th Pennsylvania Infantry
SOURCES
1860 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Widow’s Pension Records of Catherine Langdon, available from Fold3.com
