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Federal (USV)

Private

William Wallace Porter

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Glastonbury, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 13 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his thigh just above his knee in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital on the field then admitted to the hospital in the German Reformed Church in Sharpsburg on 5 October. Surgeon McDowell amputated his leg at the thigh on 8 October but he died at about 2:30 AM on 10 October 1862 at age 27.

References & notes

His service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson,3 quoting Surgeon E. M. McDowell's Casebook. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Arazius Sophia Dolph (1834-1860) in June 1857 in Hartford and they had 2 children.

Birth

c. 1835

Death

10/10/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, CT

Notes

1   Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 658 - 663  [AotW citation 5585]

2   State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 634  [AotW citation 27232]

3   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pp. 61, 653  [AotW citation 27233]