W. Lomison

Federal (USV)

Private

William Lomison

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 81st Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, a laborer, he enlisted and mustered at Mauch Chunk, PA as a Private in Company G, 81st Pennsylvania Infantry on 16 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Ronn Palm collection, thanks to John Banks.

Birth

02/18/1842 in PA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Beaver Meadows Cemetery, Beaver Meadows, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11797]

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 31248]

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