William F. Griffin

(? - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted in Company F on 16 May 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded in the arm in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The remainder of the War:
Hospitalized in Mount Jackson, VA where he died on 2 November 1862 of wounds and pneumonia.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Wilson1. Some detail from the US Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors Database. Service data from the Roster2: Company F transcribed and posted on NCGenWeb by Robert E. Stokley.

Place of Birth: Perquimans County, NC
Death Date: 11/02/1862 Death Place: Mount Jackson, VA

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9931]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 18 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 9952]

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