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(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted in Company B, 8th Ohio Infantry at age 22 on 15 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was "buried from the residence of his father" in Albany, NY on 15 October 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Ohio1, which has him as William F. Champion. Burial detail from J. Munsell's Collections on the History of Albany (Vol. II, 1867).
Birth
c. 1839
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Albany, NY
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, pp. 239 - 243 [AotW citation 14718]