George H. Randall Papers

Electronic finding aid created from processed collection by Carolyn Palarda, undergraduate intern, October 2017.

George H. Randall appears in the Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and Lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of Rebellion, 1861-1866. He was part of the 4th Vermont Infantry, Company D, serving as a musician from Glover, VT (which matches the address of his correspondence to his wife) with an enlistment date of 1861 August 30, and a discharge date, due to disability, of February 25, 1863. This period is documented in this collection. Note that this name is also present earlier as part of the 3rd Vermont Infantry, Company A, serving as a private from Springfield with an enlistment date of June 1, 1861 and a discharge date of November 20, 1862 due to disability. The index in the roster does not treat this case as two people who happen to have the same name. The towns of Glover and Springfield are over 100 miles apart. The second enlistment date is before the first discharge date, so it seems more likely they are different people. Note that 2 separate death records disagree about his age at death (whether 34 or 36 in 1863), but his grave stone gives the age of 36 and the 1860 census gives his age as 33, so the birth year of 1827 and age at death of 36 is used here.

Records on ancestry commonly include the following transcription errors: Stanghton for Stoughton and Randell for Randall. Curiously the 1900 US Census does not include George Henry Randall in his father Henry Stoughton Randall's household; instead, George is listed as the son of a family called Quimby, possibly the family of his teacher Nina Quimby and her parents, living in Concord, Vermont, despite his father Henry living in the same town. In the 1910 US Census, George and Henry again live together.