[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

William F. Parker

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company D, 8th Ohio Infantry at age 21 on 3 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the School House Hospital, Chambersburg, PA. He was absent, sick in hospital at muster-out on 13 July 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Sawyer1, with casualty details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1840

Notes

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. 209 - 211 [AotW citation 14813]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 345 [AotW citation 16978]

« Search for another Person