GEORGE INGRAM -- 65th INFANTRYJOINED NEAR THE END OF THE WAR - When he was 22 years old, GeorgeIngram, a farmer who was born in Canada, enlisted in the 65th Infantryin Plattsburgh near the end of the Civil War. He received a countybounty of \$150 to enlist on March 24, 1865. For substituting forEmerson Rand from Altona, he got an additional \$300 but didn't get toVirginia until the war was over and the regiment had suffered 517casualties.The 65th allowed many of its tired soldiers to return home after theAppomattox Campaign and the men who were recruited with George wereexpected to help with the downsizing of the regiment. George joined theregiment while they were marching back to Richmond and then the capital.He was mustered out on June 15, 1865, from Auger Hospital in Alexandria,VA.We don't know whether George came back to the Altona area after the waror whether he went back to Canada, but we do know that Emerson Rand, forwhom he substituted, died in in 1897 and was buried in the West ChazyRural Cemetery.
