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Federal (USV)

Private

William F. Stone

(c. 1841 - 1864)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted in Coudersport on 16 October 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company G, 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry on 29 October in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured in action, place not given, and died while a prisoner at Andersonville, GA on 12 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Card File,1 which says only that he was "not accounted for" on the Company muster-out roll. His wound at Antietam from a notice in the Potter County Journal of 24 September 1862 found in Victor L. Beebe's History of Potter County, Pennsylvania (1934). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

07/12/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Macon County, GA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23252]

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