Strong, George Crockett

Life Span
to
Full name
George Crockett Strong
Place of Birth
Stockbridge, VT
Burial Place
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Siblings
3
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
1
Family
David Ellsworth Strong (father), Harriet Fay Sytong (mother), Margaret Ellis Budd (wife) 
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Other
Other Education
Union College (NY)
Occupation
Military
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
Date Event
- Union troops land on Morris Island and fail in a dawn attack on Fort Wagner
On Morris Island, South Carolina, Confederate defenders of Fort Wagner beat back a second heavy attack
The African-American 54th Massachusetts earns fame across the North with its brave attempt to storm Fort Wagner
General George C. Strong, dead of wounds received at Fort Wagner, is buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
United States Colored Troops
Date Title
Edward L. Pierce to John Albion Andrew, July 22, 1863
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