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(c. 1820 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Born in Ireland, he was living in Scotland by 1849 then came to America, landing in New York City in 1851. In 1860 he was a 40 year old mine worker in Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlisted on 16 September 1861 and mustered on 25 September 1861 in Pottsville, PA as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and buried nearby, in Burkittsville, MD.
The rest of the War
He was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates,1 as William Weaklam, and the Card File,2 as William Wicklam. Burial information from the History,3 as William Weakland. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Wm. Weaklam.
He married Jane Uncals in County Sligo in 1844 and they had 7 children by 1858; the first born in Dublin (1846), 2nd and 3rd in Scotland (1849, 1851), and the 4th (1853) and later in Pennsylvania.
Birth
c. 1820; Lurganboy, County Leitrim, IRELAND
Death
09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11910]
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 31014]
3 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 153 [AotW citation 31015]