William Henry Haney

A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker living with his parents in Muncie, IN. He mustered as a Private in Company E, 19th Indiana Infantry on 29 July 1861.

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862

which fractured and depressed both tables of the anterior inferior portion of the right parietal bone. The missile had split upon the fractured edge of the bone.

He was admitted to the Capitol Hospital in Washington, DC on 23 September and transferred to the Satterlee General Hospital in Philadelphia, PA on 12 October. He underwent surgery on the 15th to removed detached pieces of skull bone - his brain membrane was found to have been penetrated and his brain injured. He was in full possession of his senses, but weak and bedridden. Pyaemia (blood poisoning/septicemia) attacked and he died on 21 November 1862.

Service information from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 source of the quote above. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Brian Boeve collection published in Military Images (Winter 2015).

10/15/1841; Muncie, IN

11/21/1862; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Parker-Moore Cemetery, Muncie, IN