The son of William W. & Harriet W. (Butler) Campbell, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 9" tall and had dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Philadelphia September 22, 1862, as a private with Battery F, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (152nd Pa). In either November or December 1863, he was detached to clerical duty with the commissary department at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and never returned to the regiment. Meanwhile, a George T. Campbell, who also served with the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery but in Battery A, was captured at Smithfield, Virginia, incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville March 12, 1864, and died in the hospital there of "scorbutis." Somehow that prisoner of war record made its way into George Butler Campbell's Compiled Military Service Record to mislead future generations of researchers. This George was never captured and still breathing when he discharged the service by general order June 7, 1865. This author has reported the issue to the National Archives in hopes they will place the erroneous prisoner-of-war record into the proper folder. (Just don't count on it happening.)
In 1863, his father moved the family to a farm in Fawn Township, York County. There, George married Annie Margaret Renfrew and fathered Mary (b. @1877), Joseph (b. 1880), Pearl E. (b. @1886), and William W. (b. @1894). He later moved his family to a farm in Airville, York County, but about six years before his death transplanted several miles to the north to Red Lion. He died at age 63-0-15.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Philadelphia September 22, 1862, as a private with Battery F, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (152nd Pa). In either November or December 1863, he was detached to clerical duty with the commissary department at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and never returned to the regiment. Meanwhile, a George T. Campbell, who also served with the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery but in Battery A, was captured at Smithfield, Virginia, incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville March 12, 1864, and died in the hospital there of "scorbutis." Somehow that prisoner of war record made its way into George Butler Campbell's Compiled Military Service Record to mislead future generations of researchers. This George was never captured and still breathing when he discharged the service by general order June 7, 1865. This author has reported the issue to the National Archives in hopes they will place the erroneous prisoner-of-war record into the proper folder. (Just don't count on it happening.)
In 1863, his father moved the family to a farm in Fawn Township, York County. There, George married Annie Margaret Renfrew and fathered Mary (b. @1877), Joseph (b. 1880), Pearl E. (b. @1886), and William W. (b. @1894). He later moved his family to a farm in Airville, York County, but about six years before his death transplanted several miles to the north to Red Lion. He died at age 63-0-15.
The son of William W. & Harriet W. (Butler) Campbell, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 9" tall and had dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Philadelphia September 22, 1862, as a private with Battery F, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (152nd Pa). In either November or December 1863, he was detached to clerical duty with the commissary department at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and never returned to the regiment. Meanwhile, a George T. Campbell, who also served with the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery but in Battery A, was captured at Smithfield, Virginia, incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville March 12, 1864, and died in the hospital there of "scorbutis." Somehow that prisoner of war record made its way into George Butler Campbell's Compiled Military Service Record to mislead future generations of researchers. This George was never captured and still breathing when he discharged the service by general order June 7, 1865. This author has reported the issue to the National Archives in hopes they will place the erroneous prisoner-of-war record into the proper folder. (Just don't count on it happening.)
In 1863, his father moved the family to a farm in Fawn Township, York County. There, George married Annie Margaret Renfrew and fathered Mary (b. @1877), Joseph (b. 1880), Pearl E. (b. @1886), and William W. (b. @1894). He later moved his family to a farm in Airville, York County, but about six years before his death transplanted several miles to the north to Red Lion. He died at age 63-0-15.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Philadelphia September 22, 1862, as a private with Battery F, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (152nd Pa). In either November or December 1863, he was detached to clerical duty with the commissary department at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and never returned to the regiment. Meanwhile, a George T. Campbell, who also served with the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery but in Battery A, was captured at Smithfield, Virginia, incarcerated in the stockade at Andersonville March 12, 1864, and died in the hospital there of "scorbutis." Somehow that prisoner of war record made its way into George Butler Campbell's Compiled Military Service Record to mislead future generations of researchers. This George was never captured and still breathing when he discharged the service by general order June 7, 1865. This author has reported the issue to the National Archives in hopes they will place the erroneous prisoner-of-war record into the proper folder. (Just don't count on it happening.)
In 1863, his father moved the family to a farm in Fawn Township, York County. There, George married Annie Margaret Renfrew and fathered Mary (b. @1877), Joseph (b. 1880), Pearl E. (b. @1886), and William W. (b. @1894). He later moved his family to a farm in Airville, York County, but about six years before his death transplanted several miles to the north to Red Lion. He died at age 63-0-15.
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