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W.L. Baker
(1839 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Command Billet: Battery Officer
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
The son of former Congressman Osmyn Baker, he was commissioned 2nd - then 1st Lieutenant in the Regular Army, 4th US Artillery, on 5 August 1861.
On the Campaign
Killed in action by artillery fire at Antietam on 17 September, probably by the same round that wounded Captain Clark.
References & notes
Basic service data from Heitman1, with additional information from his gravestone found on Find A Grave. The photo here is from a CDV kindly provided by Vern DeLong.
More on the Web
A coastal defense battery at Ft. Totten, NY was named for him in 1903 (via FortWiki). It was active until 1945.
Birth
10/05/1839 in MA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 185 [AotW citation 1123]
