George A. Fanjoy

George A. Fanjoy, 18, enlisted at Brooklyn on September 27, 1862, for nine months, and was mustered in as a private in Company B of the 176th New York on December 18, 1862. The roster has no further record of him (176th roster, p. 914).

He had already served with the brothers. The muster-in roll of Company F, 47th Regiment, New York State Militia, lists “Farejoy, George”, a private aged 18, mustered in at Brooklyn on May 27, 1862, for three months at Fort McHenry, in the same company as Sergeant James D. Wade and Private William Wade (47th muster-in roll, PDF p. 12).

He is in nearly every letter Willie wrote from Louisiana. The two explored the country above New Orleans together and rode the roof of a freight car to Terre Bonne (Willie, March 4, 1863). At Brashear City George “got a Secesh hat” on a scout and went up the bayou on a steamboat that later sank; he came back having “lost his shoes and gun but got the captain’s gun” (Willie, June 4, 1863; Willie, June 12, 1863). At Bonnet Carré he and Willie “talked about home and how the Major was trying to hold us, until nearly 12 o’clock” (Willie, September 4, 1863), and he brought Willie his letters out on picket (Willie, October 22, 1863).

Mother wrote that Sergeant Enders had put “Willie’s and George’s names” among the nine-months men (Mother to James, December 27, 1863). When the nine-months men sailed for home, George “managed to get aboard with A Co.… He had on your big straw hat which you left in camp. He also had a cane, imitating a countryman, and passed right before Morgan’s eyes without being recognized” (Willie to James, December 27, 1863).

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1862 Oct 26 1863 Mar 4 Mar 13 Jun 4 Jun 12 & 13 Sep 4 Sep 21 Oct 22 & 25 Dec 27 (Mother) Dec 27 (Willie)