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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William G. Lewis

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old laborer in Meriden, CT. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Rifle Company B, 3rd Connecticut Infantry on 14 May. He mustered out with them on 12 August. He enlisted again, on 18 September 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record2 and Ingersoll,3 who says he died of wounds on 26 September 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in East Cemetery, Meriden, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12554]

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. 39, 356 [AotW citation 30662]

3 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, p. 391 [AotW citation 30663]

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