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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Whales

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 7 October 1861 in New York City and mustered as Private, Company G, 4th New York Infantry on the same day.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and died there of wounds on 22 November 1862.

References & notes

Service from the Adjutant General,1 who has his death date as 21 November. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

11/22/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 1898, Ser. No. 17, pg. 769 [AotW citation 20395]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.768 [AotW citation 20396]

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