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Federal (USV)

Major

William Briner

(1819 - 1890)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was the 40 year old chief clerk in the US Post Office in Reading, PA, he enrolled at Easton, PA on 7 June 1861 and mustered as Captain of Company D of the 3rd Pennsylvania Reserves on 28 July in Harrisburg.He was appointed Major on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown Hospital, near Sharpsburg, MD. He mustered out at Philadelphia on 17 June 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

After the War

He was Postmaster at Reading, PA from 1865-1869 and by 1870 was a carpenter there. He was later an employee of the Reading Trust Company.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1. His service basics from the Card File 2 and Bates.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his undated/uncredited obituary.

He married Anna Elizabeth Dengler (1834-1906) in April 1854 and they had 7 children.

Birth

01/01/1819; Reading, PA

Death

06/26/1890; Reading, PA; burial in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA

Notes

1 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. 142 [AotW citation 16630]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31862]

3 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31863]

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