George Folsom Walcott was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War. George F. Walcott was born December 22, 1836 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He was a graduate of Harvard University in 1857 and Harvard University Law School in 1860 and a lawyer. Walcott was the author of History of the Twenty-First Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the War for the Preservation of the Union, 1861-1865. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882. OCLC 228668643. Charles F. Walcott died June 11, 1881 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.