GEORGE YOUNG -- 96th INFANTRY FOUGHT FOR NEW YORK AND VERMONT - Captain Darius Parsons recruited George Young to be in Company B of the 96th Infantry in Beekmantown. He was born in 1843 in St. Antoine, Quebec, and enlisted on November 6,1861. He was mustered in on the 21st, in Plattsburgh where they organized. The 96th, known as the Plattsburg Regiment, contained four companies from the local area, one made up of men from Chazy and Mooers and the other four from various northeastern New York counties. They were mustered into U. S. service in Plattsburgh, and, after drilling for a few months, left for Washington on March 11, 1862. By April 17th, they were at the Siege of Yorktown on the York River in Virginia. The regiment lost their first blood at the Battle of Seven Pines on May27th and had an even bloodier battle two days later at Fair Oaks. George stayed with the 96th until June 13, 1863, when the regiment was in North Carolina, when he was discharged for disability. George almost immediately moved to Vermont to work and on August 10, 1864, enlisted in the 2nd VT Light Artillery to serve for one year. When that regiment came to the end of its 3-year term in September 1864, the recruits and men who wished to remain were reorganized into the 1st Company of Heavy Artillery of the Vermont Volunteers which mustered out at the end of July 1865. After the war George worked at many menial jobs to support his family. He died in Colchester in 1908 and was buried in the St. Francis-Xavier Cemetery in Winooski. Zoe Demars, his wife, received her Widows Pension until 1912 when she died and was buried beside him.
