| Another Veteran Fusilier Mustered Out
George T. DAniels died at his residence 72 Pleasant street at 8:23 a.m. today. His illness commenced ... April with ... .... ... He went to the front with the regiment and his ... service with with his company doing picket duty along the ... of the Potomac in Maryland until the regiment was ordered across the Potomac and participated in the disastrous battle of Balls Bluff, Oct 21, 1861. During the battle he was wounded twice -- once in the right forearm and once in the left shoulder, two bullets striking him at the same time. Mr. Daniels and George B. Simonds were the first two wounded soldiers to be brought home to Fitchburg by the committee sent out by the town to look after its wounded soldiers. The committee consisted of Dr. Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen Shepley, C. Marshall, B. Prentiss and A. P. Kimball. Mr. Kimball is the only one of the five now living. The older residents of Fitchburg will remember with what interest the committee and the wounded soldiers were received on their return home. Mr. Daniels' most intimate friends among his comrades in arms either lost their lives in battle, in the hospital or in rebel prisons. As soon as he had sufficiently recovered from his wounds, he was employed for a time in the recruiting service. During McClellan's Peninsula campaign, he was in the hospital service near the scene of active operations. He was discharged from the service for disability from the effects of his wounds, Oct. 24, 1862. The last two months of his life in a hospital was at Newport News, Va. Mr. Daniels was bookkeeper for the Fitchburg National bank from 1864 to 1873, when he became teller of the institution, which office he held till 1883, when he resigned his position, his health being insufficient for arduous and continuous service. He has since been employed in various financial institutions as health permitted. He joined Post 19, G. A. R., Nov. 14, 1868, and continued a member during the rest of his life. Mr. Daniels married, Sept. 1, 1870, Mrs. Mary F. Towne, who survives her husband. He also leaves one brother, John H. Daniels of this city, and two sisters -- Mrs. Abbie Cleaves, the wife of Prof. Edwin C. Cleaves of Cornell university, formerly of this city, whose place of residence is Cortland, M. A., and Mrs. O. P. Conking, whose husband is manager of an extensive shoe manufactory at La Crosse, Wis. |