W.N. Chamberlin

Federal (USV)

Sergeant

William N. Chamberlin

(1833 - 1892)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: New Hampshire Light Artillery, First Battery

Before Antietam

Age 30, from Manchester, NH, he enlisted 16 August 1861 and mustered as Sergeant, First NewHampshire Light Artillery on 26 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Battery on 28 September 1863 and was wounded again, in action at the Po River, VA on 10 May 1864. He mustered out on 6 October 1864.

References & notes

Service from Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture from a photograph provided by David M. Morin.

Birth

08/30/1833; Broom, CANADA

Death

05/11/1892; Manchester, NH; burial in Valley Cemetery, Manchester, NH

Notes

1 State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Office, and Augustus D. Ayling, AG, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 , 2 Volumes, Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895, Vol. 2, pg. 898 [AotW citation 20325]

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