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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

William R. Whitmer

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old wagon maker in Clan Cn, he enlisted on 10 August 1862 at Sligo and mustered as Sergeant, Company H, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 2 September in Pittsburgh.

On the Campaign

He died of typhoid fever at Sharpsburg, MD on 12 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Porter1 and the Card File.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

10/12/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 448 - 492 [AotW citation 13592]

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