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Federal (USV)

Private

William Elmore

(1842 - 1912)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker living with older brother John and 2 younger siblings in Burnett, Dodge County, WI. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield, then in hospitals in Frederick, MD and Philadelphia, PA. He was discharged for disability on 6 February 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming and in the stock raising business with his brother John at Rock Port in Atchison County, MO. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was living in Kansas City and was on the Stock Yard Commission.

References & notes

His service basics from Bryant.1 Hospital and wound detail from Nelson2 and a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/1842; Waupun, WI

Death

11/16/1912; Kansas City, MO; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, MO

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 415 - 419 [AotW citation 15212]

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, p. 201 [AotW citation 34315]

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