Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives | Civil War Records of George Flood

Civil War Records of George Flood

Service

Co.	Regiment / Ship	From	To	Residence / Credit	Occupation	Notes
E	26th MVI	enl. Sept. 9, 1861; must. Oct. 18, 1861; re-enlist. Jan. 1, 1864; prisoner Oct. 26, 1864 near Newtown, Va.; exchanged Feb. 20, 1865	must. out August 26, 1865	Assabet	clerk
MASSCW, 3:90

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page 54 (PDF*)

Pension

Co.	Regiment	Date Filed	Type	App. No.	Cert. No.	State	Beneficiary/Remarks
E	26th MVI	Aug. 6, 1881	Invalid	618 514	509 674	Mass.
E	26th MVI	Dec. 22, 1899	Widow	710 649	591 066	Mass.	Mary Flood

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives): 13 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Commander of the Henry Wilson Post No. 86, Assabet Village, 1881-82 (Brown: 20, 396).

Recorded as member no. 53 in the membership roster of Isaac Davis Post No. 138 G.A.R., Acton, Massachusetts (Acton Memorial Library archives, 92.2.1).

G.A.R. Personal War Sketch

Death

Date	October 23, 1899
Place	Maynard, Mass.
Age	55
Cause
Obituary	Maynard News, October 27, 1899 Concord Enterprise, October 26, 1899
Funeral
Burial	Glenwood Cemetery, Maynard, Mass.
Survived by	Widow, Mary Flood; daughter, Mrs. Effie Flood-Morton

Additional Information

"George Flood is a citizen of prominence in the town of Maynard, Mass., whre he has held public office for twenty-five years, and is a conspicuous veteran of the Civil War, being the only man in Maynard who was in LIbby Prison, and having a military record with whch that of no other man in the town can compare...." (biographical sketch in: Biographical Review, Volume XXVII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: 556.

His re-enlistment credited to Acton is recorded on: Copy of the Tabulated Record of Men who Re-enlisted in the 26th Mass. Vols. about Jan. 1, 1865, and were credited on Acton's quota, none of which have received a Town bounty (broadside, approx. 11.25x13 in., courtesy Brewster Conant).