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Federal (USV)

Private

William Turner

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 111th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old tailor, he enlisted on 16 October 1861 in Youngsville, PA and mustered into service as Private, Company H, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry on 2 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 19 July 1865 in Washington, DC.

References & notes

Service from Bates.1 His wound at Antietam and other details from the Company H Descriptive Book in the US National Archives, transcribed and provided by Patrick Knierman.

Birth

c. 1839 in ENGLAND

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. III, pg. 1050 [AotW citation 21697]

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