Name: George W. Aldrich
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 79
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: May 1845
Birth Place: Ohio
Death Date: 12 Aug 1922
Death Place: Indiana State Soldiers Home, Tippecanoe, Indiana, USA
Father: John L Aldrich
Spouse: Mary E Aldrich
Contributor: RDL #47303398
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Jun 15, 1916
"VETERAN VISITS "BUNKIE" OF CIVIL WAR SERVICE
Comrade William Delvln, a veteran of the civil war, and hale and hearty in spite ot his eighty-six years, was greeting old friends and acquaintances in Fort Wayne yesterday.
He will spend several days here as the guest of his old army "bunkie" and tentmate, George W. Aldrich. As comrades together in the days of the war, they served in Company A, fifth Indiana cavalry for three years and were prisoners in the old confederate penitentiary at Charleston, S. C., during the siege and bombardment of that city by the federal fleet. Comrade Delvin hails from Huntington. He will attend tho meeting of Lawton-Wayne post Saturday."
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Enlisted on either Aug 11, 1862 or Nov 8, 1862. Mustered out on Aug 8, 1865. He lived in Huntington County, Indiana.
Name: George W. Aldrich
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 79
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: May 1845
Birth Place: Ohio
Death Date: 12 Aug 1922
Death Place: Indiana State Soldiers Home, Tippecanoe, Indiana, USA
Father: John L Aldrich
Spouse: Mary E Aldrich
Contributor: RDL #47303398
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Jun 15, 1916
"VETERAN VISITS "BUNKIE" OF CIVIL WAR SERVICE
Comrade William Delvln, a veteran of the civil war, and hale and hearty in spite ot his eighty-six years, was greeting old friends and acquaintances in Fort Wayne yesterday.
He will spend several days here as the guest of his old army "bunkie" and tentmate, George W. Aldrich. As comrades together in the days of the war, they served in Company A, fifth Indiana cavalry for three years and were prisoners in the old confederate penitentiary at Charleston, S. C., during the siege and bombardment of that city by the federal fleet. Comrade Delvin hails from Huntington. He will attend tho meeting of Lawton-Wayne post Saturday."
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Enlisted on either Aug 11, 1862 or Nov 8, 1862. Mustered out on Aug 8, 1865. He lived in Huntington County, Indiana.
Bio by: Anne Mortensen
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Co. A, Ind. 5th Cav.
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