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Federal (USV)

Private

William Smith

(1816 - 1876)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 130th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his age as 40, he enlisted at Hanover, PA on 7 August and mustered into service as a Private in Company C, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 20 October 1862 "by order of Gen. Summer" [Sumner].

References & notes

His basic service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 He was born Wilhelm Schmitt. Thanks to Frederick Smith for the pointer to his great-great-grandfather, along with his personal information and the detail of his wounding at Antietam.

Birth

10/10/1816 in GERMANY

Death

03/11/1876; York County, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 29862]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 29863]

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