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Federal (USV)

Captain

David Sellers Yardley

(1842 - 1866)

Home State: Delaware

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Delaware Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old on his parent's farm at Milford Hundred, Kent County, DE. He served as First Sergeant, Company D, in the First Delaware Infantry (3 months) April - July 1861. He was appointed Lieutenant, probably in September 1861, and Captain, Company D, First Delaware Infantry (for 3 years) on 13 December 1861 at age 20 in Dover, DE.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission on 1 January 1865.

After the War

He drowned at age 24 in 1866.

References & notes

Basic information from Murphey.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; thanks to Tom DeNardo for the pointer to that.

More on the Web

The Yardley Family Papers, which include 3 wartime letters from David, are in the collection of the Winterthur Library [finding aid].

Birth

12/29/1842 in PA

Death

08/01/1866; burial in Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN

Notes

1   Murphey, Thomas G., Four Years in the War - The History of the First Regiment of Delaware Veteran Volunteers, Philadelphia: James S. Claxton, 1866, pp. 79 - 80, 255, 266, 286, 303  [AotW citation 13776]