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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Clarke

Home State: Delaware

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Delaware Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company D, 1st Delaware Infantry

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot which fractured his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Frederick, MD.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1, who also has him as Wm. H. Clam.

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, pp. 161, 163  [AotW citation 17478]