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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

William H. Butler

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted as a Sergeant in Company B, 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 August 1861 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and later as "supposed to have been killed."

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1838

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 11736]

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 27830]

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