Here is a pension application filed by George Mathews' widow, Charlotte. The date is 17 Jan 1863, some 8 months after George succumbed to disease at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Unfortunately, no other information regarding his residence, or burial is recorded. Need to find a death record, or an obit would be nice (but unlikely).
He could be buried at Ft. Leavenworth, although there is no record of a George Mathews, or derivative of that name in the online database; or he could be among the "unknown soldiers" buried in the soldiers lot at the Mound City Cemetery (http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/lots/moundcity.asp). Seems unlikely that he would have been hauled back to Ohio. Somewhere out there is a box with a record(s) that has all the information . . . Happy Thanksgiving.
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