William Byron Livermore

In 1855 he was a 17 year old farm boy in Lisle, Broome County, NY. On 22 October 1861, at age 23 he enlisted there and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 89th New York Infantry the next day.

He was wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

His arm was amputated near the shoulder and he was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD. He was discharged for disability in October 1862 at Pleasant Valley, MD.

In 1870 he was farming on his brother Asa's place at Lisle but by 1875 was a laborer there. In 1880 he was a school janitor. He was probably getting by on his disability pension and taking in boarders by 1900.

His service from the State of New York.1 Hospital detail from Nelson.2 His amputation from from a letter of 26 September 1865 he wrote entering a left-hand penmanship contest, now at the Library of Congress. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, the US Veterans Census of 1890, and the NY State Census of 1855 & 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in 1837.

06/10/1838; Lisle, NY

05/24/1916; Lisle, NY; burial in Lisle Village Cemetery, Lisle, NY