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Federal (USV)

Private

William J. Wismer

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted in Doylestown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company F, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2

There were three other Wismers in his Company, probably cousins: Hartman Kile (1840-1919), Samuel Angeny (1838-1912), and Lewis (1839-1894).

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11199]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23917]

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