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A graduate of Yale College, class of 1861.
Died in the service of his country
[According to US Veteran's Gravesites, ca 1775-2006 (Ancestry.com) Gilbert M Stocking, Pvt US Army Civil War was interred on 25 Jan 1865 in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Sec 32 Site 2962 in St Louis Missouri.]
[GILBERT MILES STOCKING died at Jefferson Barracks Hospital,
Jan 24, 1865, aged 26 years.
He was a native of Waterbury, Conn , where he was born
Dec 22, 1838.
Having spent two years in teaching at Lyme and Greenwich,
Conn , and in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven,
he determined to give himself to the cause of the country
At the close of the year 186S, he enlisted and soon afterwards joined Co B, of the 20th Connecticut Infantry, then in the Department of the Cumberland, guarding the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Dunng the rest of the winter he acted as clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, and in the following spring took the field and participated in the operations which resulted in the capture of Atlanta. Though detailed as a clerk at Brigade Headquarters, he claimed no exemption from the work of a private soldier, hut took his turn in the trenches and on the picket line, till his strength was exhausted, and he was compelled to go into hospital. He was sent northward when Atlanta was evacuated, and after a wearisome journey was placed in the Hospital of Jefferson Barracks near St Louis. It was thought he would recover his health if quiet and
care could he secured for him, and his discharge papers were
accordingly made out. He was expecting to set out for home
in a day or two, when alone at night he quietly passed away
from earth to Heaven. His remains were brought home to Waterbury. A sketch of his career, from the pen of one of his classmates, appears in the Connecticut War Record for May 1865.
A graduate of Yale College, class of 1861.
Died in the service of his country
[According to US Veteran's Gravesites, ca 1775-2006 (Ancestry.com) Gilbert M Stocking, Pvt US Army Civil War was interred on 25 Jan 1865 in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Sec 32 Site 2962 in St Louis Missouri.]
[GILBERT MILES STOCKING died at Jefferson Barracks Hospital,
Jan 24, 1865, aged 26 years.
He was a native of Waterbury, Conn , where he was born
Dec 22, 1838.
Having spent two years in teaching at Lyme and Greenwich,
Conn , and in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven,
he determined to give himself to the cause of the country
At the close of the year 186S, he enlisted and soon afterwards joined Co B, of the 20th Connecticut Infantry, then in the Department of the Cumberland, guarding the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Dunng the rest of the winter he acted as clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, and in the following spring took the field and participated in the operations which resulted in the capture of Atlanta. Though detailed as a clerk at Brigade Headquarters, he claimed no exemption from the work of a private soldier, hut took his turn in the trenches and on the picket line, till his strength was exhausted, and he was compelled to go into hospital. He was sent northward when Atlanta was evacuated, and after a wearisome journey was placed in the Hospital of Jefferson Barracks near St Louis. It was thought he would recover his health if quiet and
care could he secured for him, and his discharge papers were
accordingly made out. He was expecting to set out for home
in a day or two, when alone at night he quietly passed away
from earth to Heaven. His remains were brought home to Waterbury. A sketch of his career, from the pen of one of his classmates, appears in the Connecticut War Record for May 1865.
ae 26
A graduate of Yale College, class of 1861.
Died in the service of his country
[According to US Veteran's Gravesites, ca 1775-2006 (Ancestry.com) Gilbert M Stocking, Pvt US Army Civil War was interred on 25 Jan 1865 in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Sec 32 Site 2962 in St Louis Missouri.]
[GILBERT MILES STOCKING died at Jefferson Barracks Hospital,
Jan 24, 1865, aged 26 years.
He was a native of Waterbury, Conn , where he was born
Dec 22, 1838.
Having spent two years in teaching at Lyme and Greenwich,
Conn , and in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven,
he determined to give himself to the cause of the country
At the close of the year 186S, he enlisted and soon afterwards joined Co B, of the 20th Connecticut Infantry, then in the Department of the Cumberland, guarding the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Dunng the rest of the winter he acted as clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, and in the following spring took the field and participated in the operations which resulted in the capture of Atlanta. Though detailed as a clerk at Brigade Headquarters, he claimed no exemption from the work of a private soldier, hut took his turn in the trenches and on the picket line, till his strength was exhausted, and he was compelled to go into hospital. He was sent northward when Atlanta was evacuated, and after a wearisome journey was placed in the Hospital of Jefferson Barracks near St Louis. It was thought he would recover his health if quiet and
care could he secured for him, and his discharge papers were
accordingly made out. He was expecting to set out for home
in a day or two, when alone at night he quietly passed away
from earth to Heaven. His remains were brought home to Waterbury. A sketch of his career, from the pen of one of his classmates, appears in the Connecticut War Record for May 1865.
A graduate of Yale College, class of 1861.
Died in the service of his country
[According to US Veteran's Gravesites, ca 1775-2006 (Ancestry.com) Gilbert M Stocking, Pvt US Army Civil War was interred on 25 Jan 1865 in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Sec 32 Site 2962 in St Louis Missouri.]
[GILBERT MILES STOCKING died at Jefferson Barracks Hospital,
Jan 24, 1865, aged 26 years.
He was a native of Waterbury, Conn , where he was born
Dec 22, 1838.
Having spent two years in teaching at Lyme and Greenwich,
Conn , and in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven,
he determined to give himself to the cause of the country
At the close of the year 186S, he enlisted and soon afterwards joined Co B, of the 20th Connecticut Infantry, then in the Department of the Cumberland, guarding the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Dunng the rest of the winter he acted as clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, and in the following spring took the field and participated in the operations which resulted in the capture of Atlanta. Though detailed as a clerk at Brigade Headquarters, he claimed no exemption from the work of a private soldier, hut took his turn in the trenches and on the picket line, till his strength was exhausted, and he was compelled to go into hospital. He was sent northward when Atlanta was evacuated, and after a wearisome journey was placed in the Hospital of Jefferson Barracks near St Louis. It was thought he would recover his health if quiet and
care could he secured for him, and his discharge papers were
accordingly made out. He was expecting to set out for home
in a day or two, when alone at night he quietly passed away
from earth to Heaven. His remains were brought home to Waterbury. A sketch of his career, from the pen of one of his classmates, appears in the Connecticut War Record for May 1865.
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