George Folsom Walcott was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War.

[1] On August 5, 1861, Walcott was appointed captain of the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

[1] On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Walcott for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious service resulting in the fall of Richmond, Virginia, and surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, to rank from April 9, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.

[2][3] Walcott was the author of History of the Twenty-First Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the War for the Preservation of the Union, 1861-1865.

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