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Federal (USV)

Private

William Miller Ickes

(1842 - 1914)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old farmer in Mifflin Township, known by his middle name, he enlisted on 8 August 1861 in Newville, and mustered as Private, Company H, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry on 27 August in Washington, DC.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 24 August 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Card File.1 Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/26/1842; Doubling Gap, PA

Death

12/27/1914; Mifflin, PA; burial in Doubling Gap Church Of God Cemetery, Newville, PA

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 23357]

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