Thanks David,
That certainly looks to me like it could be him. I looked at a map of NY and found that Roseboom is only about 40 miles from his hometown of New Berlin, so perhaps he was working as a farm hand away from home when he enlisted. Can I ask you what your source was for that record?
If you don't mind I'd like to show you what I've found on the web about him.
His father John went by "Harkin" with no "s" and mentions George in a letter to his wife on this site about the 76th NY Infantry by Conrad Bush.
http://www.bpmlegal.com/76NY/76harkin.html.
On the 1850 US census at a time when they lived a couple of years at Harmony, PA the name is spelled "Harkin"
http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a61394/1 ... arkins.jpg while back at New Berlin in 1860 it is misspelled "Hawkins"
http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a61394/1 ... arkins.jpg.
Using the info you gave me I did a search for "George Hawkins and sharpshooters" and a site came up about a Cyrus Hardaway of Co. "D", 1st USSS which you may already know about. On the site are many letters he sent to his mother over a couple of year period as a member of Co. "D" and also a roster with George Hawkins listed. I wonder if this is the same roster that you guys have (with 85 names)
http://external.oneonta.edu/unadilla/ci ... 621018.pdf? I did a search on Ancestry.com and also Civil war Soldiers & Sailors System for George Hawkins and George Haskins as Sharpshooters and nothing came up. If the Company was that small then in all probability George Hawkins, George W. Haskins, and George W. Harkins were one and the same, that is, if someone dosn't have a roster with all these names on it at the same time?
In the Aug 10 1862 letter Cyrus Hardaway wrote to his mother he says "They boys from New Berlin are all well now except Haskins and he is getting along first rate"
http://external.oneonta.edu/unadilla/ci ... 620810.asp (perhaps a transcription error).
In this 1864 Chenango Telegraph newspaper extract on George W.'s unusual death they got the name correct at the beginning of the clipping, then slid into using Haskins (please scroll about half way down the page)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nychenan/1880-14.htm.
And finally a couple more, US Civil War Soldiers 1861-1865
http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a61394/G ... 1-1865.jpg and his Tombstone record
http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a61394/1 ... record.jpg the date of which coincides with the Chenango newspaper report.
I'll add Hawkins as well as Haskins for alternate names when I request his files from NARA and thanks again for the new info.
Greg