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Federal (USV)

Private

William J. Shope

(? - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Vermillion County, IN, he mustered as Private, Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry on 7 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 23 November 1862 for chronic diarrhea and died there on 4 December.

References & notes

Service information from the Adjutant General,1 which also has him as William Shoop. Hospital details from the Patient List,.2 which lists him as William J. Shupe. His gravesite, #3429, is on Findagrave, as William J. Shoupe.

Death

12/04/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pg. 288 [AotW citation 20615]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #647 [AotW citation 20616]

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