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Federal (USV)

Private

William I. Bennett

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 11 October 1861 in New York City for three years, and he mustered as a Private in Company H, 61st NY Infantry on 19 October.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by contusion to the scalp from a shell in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company A, 24th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 9 January 1864.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson,1 who has him as Wm. Burnett. His service from the State of New York,2 with details from his Muster Roll Extracts, online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1843

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. 149 [AotW citation 17001]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 26, p. 848 [AotW citation 30966]

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