George Washington Hoffmaster

​George Washington Hoffmaster was born in 1837 in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Richard and Mary Hoffmaster. He married Anna Roeder, an immigrant from Germany in 1858. We think he served with the Union Pennsylvania Volunteers, 122nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A. He was a professional Brick Mason, part of the firm G. W. Hoffmaster & Son brickwork and furnace contractors. He had two younger brothers that served the Union during the Civil War. Corporal John Richard Hoffmaster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1839. He served with the Union Pennsylvania Volunteers, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Company B. He was wounded, shot through the left breast, the bullet passing through his left rib. He was confined to a hospital for six months, after which he was honorably discharged. He never married and was a professional brick mason. Private William Benton Hoffmaster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He served with the Union Pennsylvania Volunteers, 46th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E. He was missing at Winchester, 25 May 1862, captured at Front Royal, Virginia. He was a sick and debilitated prisoner. After he was paroled, he was sent to Annapolis, Maryland. He eventually made it home to Reading, Pennsylvania and died on 17 Nov 1862. He never married and was a professional brick mason.