Life Span
to
Full name
George Alfred Townsend
Place of Birth
Georgetown, DE
Burial Place
Philadelphia, PA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
No. of Siblings
1
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
1
Family
Stephen Townsend (father), Mary Fleming Townsend (mother), Elizabeth Evans Rhodes (wife)
Occupation
Journalist
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Lincoln's Assassination
Date Title
George Alfred Townsend, "The Obsequies in Washington," April 19, 1865
How to Cite This Page: "Townsend, George Alfred," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/43862.