George Crowl
Private, Company G

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The son of William & Sarah (Kohl) Crowl, he married Sarah Daugherty and fathered Thomas Oliver (b. 02/17/41 – 87th Pa), Peter (b. 06/29/43), Sarah Ellen (b. 09/01/44 – married a Bowman), Mary Spangle (b. 12/04/46 – married Leonard Knisley), Zacharias Taylor (b. 01/08/48), and George Leonard S. (b. 04/17/54). Sarah died in 1855. In 1860, he was a cooper presumably living in Siddonsburg, Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsylvania, although he is not found in that census. He stood 5′ 9″ tall and had gray hair and blue eyes.

A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in York, November 21, 1861, and mustered into federal service that same day as a private with Co. G, 98th Pennsylvania Infantry. Promoted to corporal to date November 17, 1862, he received a “slight wound” at Cold Harbor, and reduced to ranks to date April 3, 1865. He honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.

He then enlisted in the U.S. Marines March 19, 1866, and, according to George, served aboard the U.S.S. Sacramento, although the Navy could find no records of that service. He honorably discharged March 18, 1868.

Sarah had died in 1855, and he married Bridget Fitzcarlo ca. 1864 and lived in Philadelphia for some years after the war. By 1890, he was living in Monaghan Township, York County, where he died from “old age.” His pension file is combined with that of his son Thomas, who had died in a Confederate prison.