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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William E. Woodman

(1837 - 1908)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 25 year old resident of Newburyport, MA, he enrolled at Corporal, Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry, and mustered in August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action on South Mountain and at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He fought at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was sent to the hospital on 3 March 1863 and discharged for disability on 14 July 1863 from the hospital at Pemberton Square, Boston.

References & notes

Basic information from Carruth1. Details from George William Creasey's The City of Newburyport in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 (1903). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/24/1837; Newburyport, MA

Death

07/20/1908; Newburyport, MA; burial in Highland Cemetery, Newburyport, MA

Notes

1 Carruth, Sumner, and others of the Committee of the Regimental Association, History of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865, Boston: Mills, Knight & Company, 1884, Roster, pg. 13 [AotW citation 15051]

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