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Federal (USV)

Private

William E. Forrest

(? - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered on 26 June 1861 as Private, Company A, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 19 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Bates.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

09/19/1862; in MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 22668]