Corporal of Company"K" 9th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. Enlisted and mustered in from Ullin, Pulaski County, Illinois on 5 August 1861. Wounded in action on 15 February 1862 (foot shot off and nine bullet wounds) during the siege of Fort Donelson. Later died of wounds complications.

"Case 1220. — Private George Lincoln, 9th Illinois, aged 27 years, was wounded at Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862. A rifle ball passed from side to side through the arch of his foot, comminuting the anterior portion of the tarsus and the metatarsal bones. The patient was conveyed to the Academy Hospital at Nashville, where Dr. T. L. Madden, of Nashville, amputated the foot, after the method of Pirogoff, on February 25th. Erysipelas appeared upon the stump on March 2d, and extended thence over the greater portion of the body, causing death on March 8, 1862. The case is reported by Surgeon K. Swift, U. S. A." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.

Pedigree:

abt. 1496-1543 Robert Lincoln Sr.

abt. 1503 - 1555 Joan Cowper

1525-1556 Robert Lincoln, Jr

1529-1558 Margaret Abell Allerbye

1550-1620 Richard Lincoln

1552-1583 Elizabeth Remching

1580-1640 Edward Lincoln

1583-1643 Bridget Gilman

1620-1690 Samuel Lincoln (1)

1630-1693 Martha Lyford

1646-1720 Samuel Lincoln (2)

1666-1706 Deborah Hersey

1691-1756 Samuel Lincoln (3)

1692-1736 Ruth Cushing

1715-1783 Samuel Lincoln (4)

1744-1813 Cpt. Zadock Lincoln

-1829 Mary ?

1770-1834 Frances Lincoln * female

1812-1847 Samuel Lincoln

1810-1874 Anna Babb

Sources:

The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln

by Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914; Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921

History of the Lincoln family : an account of the descendants of Samuel Lincoln, of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1637-1920

by Lincoln, Waldo, 1849-1933

History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol 1-3

by Hingham (Mass.); Bouvé, Thomas T. (Thomas Tracy), 1815-1896; Bouvé, Edward Tracy; Long, John Davis, 1838-1915; Bouvé, Walter Lincoln; Lincoln, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1846-1911; Lincoln, George, 1822-1909; Hersey, Edmund; Burr, Fearing; Seymour, Charles W. S. (Charles Winfield Scott), 1839-1895

and documents in my possession.