page_title: George O. Brastow
section_title: Military service
hierarchical_section_title: George O. Brastow / Military service
caption_attribution_description: English: Samuels (1897), Somerville, Past and Present, Boston, MA: Samuels and Kimball, p 146
context_page_description: George Oliver Brastow was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as a member and President of the Massachusetts Senate, as a member of the Governor's Council, and as the first Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts.
context_section_description: Before the American Civil War Brastow was the Captain of Company I of the Somerville Light Infantry of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Brastow commanded the company, for the three months at the beginning of the Civil War, that Company I was federalized and reconstituted as Company B of the 5th Regiment.   Brastow and his regiment fought at the First Battle of Bull Run.
  In 1862 Brastow was commissioned a paymaster with the rank of Major.
caption: George Brastow later in his life
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