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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

William M. Carter

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

A 22 year old machinist from Harrisburg, PA, he enlisted in Pittsburgh on 22 April 1861 and mustered in Washington, DC on 29 June as First Lieutenant of Company B, 8th Pennsylvania Reserves.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD, on 14 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial in Middletown, MD to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Bates2 and the Card File.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, 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 3302]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22777]

3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 32126]

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