William Riordan

(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 82nd New York Infantry (2nd Militia)

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted at age 21 in New York City, and mustered in as Private, Company D, 82nd New York Infantry on 1 October 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The remainder of the War:
He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which has him as Riordon. Service data from the State of New York2, who also spells his last name as Reordan.

Death Date: 09/17/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: 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 4094]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 30 (for the year 1901), pg. 444 [AotW citation 8384]

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