GEORGE WILLIAM SPAULDING -- 192nd INFANTRYDESERTED A WEEK BEFORE MUSTER-OUT - George William Spaulding was the sonof Zadock Spaulding and Sabrina Vaughn whose ancestors came to thiscontinent in the early 1600s. Rather than fight in the Revolution, theirdescendants went to live in Quebec. In the 1830s the children of theseLoyalists moved back to the United States to farm, and George was bornin Ticonderoga in 1846.On March 1, 1865, he decided to enlist in the 192nd Infantry inPlattsburgh, and for his enlistment, he received \$500. Men who joinedthe regiment were given the option to serve for one, two, or threeyears. George chose the 1-year option. The men left in detachments forthe Shenandoah Valley and George's Company F left on March 28th.While serving in the Valley they performed peace-keeping and guardduties as well as helping close down military operations. The regimentmustered out on August 28, 1865, at Cumberland, MD, however, the18-year-old George was not with them, he had deserted on August 22ndat Wheeling, WV, on the Ohio River.
