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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Knight

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, he enlisted on 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Rifle Company D (later Company H), 2nd Connecticut Infantry on 7 May; he mustered out with them at the end of their term of service on 7 August. He enlisted again, on 3 September 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12525]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pp. 30, 338 [AotW citation 30596]

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