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(1836 - 1864)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 89th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 25 years. Enlisted November 28, 1861, at Elmira, to serve three years; mustered in as Private, Co. C, December 2, 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was again wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA December 13, 1862. He died February 1, 1864 on David's Island, Long Island Sound, NY.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1, which lists him also as Humprey and Humfrey, and as Willis S. Further details from family genealogists.
Birth
5/01/1836
Death
2/01/1864; David's Island, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, for the Year 1901 (Issue 31), pp. 230 - [AotW citation 12461]