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Federal (USV)

Private

William Caslin

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted on 30 April 1861 in Bath and mustered as Private, Company A, 23rd New York Infantry on 16 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at Smoketown Hospital, Sharpsburg, and returned to duty. He mustered out with his Company on 22 May 1863 in Elmira, NY.

References & notes

Hospital information from Nelson.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2

Birth

c. 1842

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. 157 [AotW citation 17290]

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 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 447 [AotW citation 22628]

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