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Federal (USV)

Private

William B. Fisher

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 30 year old carpenter in Cambridge, he enlisted 23 August 1861 in Company G, 19th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disability on 29 April 1864, for wounds.

References & notes

Service information from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines 1 and the History.2

Birth

c. 1831

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 458 [AotW citation 17857]

2 Waitt, Ernest Linden (compiler), History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Salem (MA): The Salem Press Co., 1906, pg. 145 [AotW citation 17858]

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