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Federal (USV)

Private

William D. Jones

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 130th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered as Private, Company I, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 23 November 1862 with typhoid fever and died there on 14 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 Hospital details from the Patient List, 3 which says he transferred to Baltimore in March 1863. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

12/14/1862; 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 3695]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 25242]

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 # 664 [AotW citation 25243]

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