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Federal (USV)

Private

William Sterrett Cummins

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles)

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farmer on his grandparent's farm at Kishacoquillas in Mifflin County, PA. He enlisted on 10 May 1861 and mustered into service in Harrisburg as a Private in Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (First Rifles) on 29 May 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service basics from Bates,1 who has him as William S Cummings, killed at Antietam on 17 September, with further details from the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/20/1843; Mifflin County, PA

Death

09/14/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Church Hill Cemetery, Reedsville, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11413]

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 30842]

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