John Greene Bostwick (1837 - 1909)

Family Tree: New World - Part 7
Son of: Milton Gaylord Bostwick (1807) and Maria Rebecca (1815) GBFA
Born: 13/8/1837 in Hinesburg, Vt GBFA
Died: 13/8/1909 MI
Buried: in Mount Gaffney Cemetery, Hinesburg, Vt MI
Married: Sarah S. (1836) GBFA
Children: Jessie Maria (1866) , Caroline Sarah (1867) , John Howard (1869) , Homer Reed (1871) , Dora Rogene (1878) GBFA

In the Civil War he enlisted on 2/5/1861 in Company H, 1st Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on 15/8/1861. His regiment was the second one sent to the relief of Fortress Monroe, and was also engaged in the first battle of the war, Big Bethel. He re-enlisted on 4/8/1862 in Company H, 10th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on 22/6/1865. He acted as Brigade Quartermaster Sergeant for some time while his regiment was stationed in Poolsville, Md. In July 1863 he took 3 boat loads of stores to Washington, after being officially reported as captured. From July 1863 to June 1865 he was acting Commissary Sergeant of the 3rd Division, 3rd 26th Corps. In the published history of the 10th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, it states "on more than one occasion John G. Bostwick, who was connected with the Commissary department of our Division, saved a large amount of government property. Through his energy the troops and the hospital patients were often supplied with their rations, where less diligence would have left them without."
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1880 Census, Boston, Mass, aged 43, horse car conductor
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