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Federal (USV)

Private

William A. Lafferty

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles)

Before Antietam

Age 18, a laborer at Bradford in McKean County, PA, he enlisted there on 11 August 1861 and mustered on 13 August in Harrisburg as a Private in Company I, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the body in action at Antietam on the evening of 16 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Chambersburg, PA. He was wounded again, at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He transferred to Company I of the 190th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 May (or 13 June) 1864 and mustered out at the end of his enlistment on 13 August 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 which say he was wounded at Antietam on the 17th. His wounding on the 16th from Private Peter Close's diary. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1843

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11417]

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 32123]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 281 [AotW citation 32124]

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