William Cromwell

Of Irish parents, in 1860 he was a 17 year old living with cattle dealer William Tilden and family at Parkman, Geauga County, OH. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 7th Ohio Infantry on 21 May 1861 (or 11 September 1862?) for 3 years, giving his age as 19.

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam:

a penetrating wound of the cranium caused by a buckshot, which entered at the junction of the parietal and the occipital bone.

He was admitted to the Continental Hospital in Baltimore on 17 December and transferred to the hospital at Fort Wood in New York Harbor on 1 May 1863. He was discharged there on 28 May 1863 on a surgeon's certificate of disability. A later report by a pension examiner noted that the shot was still in his head and that Cromwell suffered "from constant headache and attacks of epilepsy rendering him unable to obtain a livelihood."

By 1880 he was in Parkman, Geauga County, OH. At the US Veteran Census of 1890 he as still in Parkman, OH, and the census taker noted he had been wounded in the head, the "bullet never extracted."

His service from Wilson,1 who also has him as William Cramwell, and says he was wounded in the leg, and the Roster.2 Wound and hospital details and the quotes above from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Augusta Bridget Cone (1846-1936).

1844 in NY

12/06/1896; burial in Overlook Cemetery, Parkman, OH