GEORGE J. WHITE -- 77th INFANTRYWITH HIS REGIMENT FOR FIVE MONTHS - Before he enlisted in the 77th Infantry, George L. White was living in Black Brook with his family. His father, Asahel, was a blacksmith born in Canada and his mother. Betsey Brown from Vermont, who was a Mayflower descendant. George was working as a teamster and he shared the household with a brother and sister and his father's apprentice, Maxim Lapierre.He was recruited in Keeseville in October and went to Saratoga to be mustered into Company I with 65 other privates from Black Brook, Keeseville and Saratoga. The regiment left the state at the end of November and served in the Washington area through the winter of 1861/62. George became ill in February and was sent to hospital in Philadelphia, PA, thus missing the Peninsula Campaign and the Maryland Campaign.George was discharged for disability on April 6, 1863, in Philadelphia, having spent most of his service in hospital.
