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Federal (USV)

Private

William S. Dickson

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

He mustered as Private, Company K, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves on 23 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded through both hips in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army "New Church" hospital in Frederick, MD on 1 October but died there on 5 December 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Bates.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

12/05/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3428]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 25136]

3 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 #204 [AotW citation 25137]

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