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Federal (USV)

Major

William Raphael

(c. 1820 - 1891)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Command Billet: Regimental Major

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

see his Battle Report

Before Antietam

By 1845 he and his brother George were in business together as linen merchants in Philadelphia, PA, doing business through other Raphaels (probably manufacturers) back in County Antrim. He enrolled in Philadelphia on 13 June 1861 and mustered there as Captain, Company C, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 3 July. He was promoted to Major on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his regiment at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

At the time of his after-action report, 23 September 1862, he was in command of the regiment. He resigned his commission on 15 January 1863.

After the War

He was still in Philadelphia to at least 1870.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates,1 as William Raphail, and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary McKean (-1892) in August 1846 and they had at least 6 children.

Birth

c. 1820; Ballymena, County Antrim, IRELAND

Death

04/26/1891; Easton, PA; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31858]

2 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 31859]

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