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W.S. Fitzsimmons
(1841 - 1870)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted as Private, Company C, 8th Ohio Infantry at age 20 on 1 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged 7 October 1862 on a Surgeon's Certificate of disability.
After the War
He read the Law in Bucyrus, OH and was admitted to the bar 16 March 1868. He died, not yet 30 years old, from consumption (tuberculosis), attributed to the lingering effects of his Antietam wound.
References & notes
Basic information from Sawyer1. Details from the State Roster2 and Perrin's History of Crawford County and Ohio (1881). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from an excellent photograph kindly provided by descendent Laura Phelps Rogers.
Birth
03/08/1841; Crawford County, OH
Death
07/11/1870; Bucyrus, OH; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus, OH
1 Sawyer, Franklin, and George A. Groot, editor, A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y, Cleveland: Fairbanks & Co., Printers, 1881, pp. 203 - 205 [AotW citation 14793]
2 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, pg. 244 [AotW citation 26019]
