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Federal (USV)

Private

Ezekiel Marsters Parker

(1842 - 1864)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Smeltzer, he enlisted in Company C, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 9 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Wounded again in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and honored by brevet to Captain on that date. He was killed in action on 5 May 1864 in the Wilderness, VA.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1, which lists him as Esekial Parker. Further details from family genealogists.

Birth

05/27/1842; Hants, Nova Scotia, CANADA

Death

05/05/1864; Wilderness, VA

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 550 - 554 [AotW citation 10571]

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