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Federal (USV)

Private

William Keen

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25 (or 35) he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company C, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 November 1861 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 22 November 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1836

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 23524]

2   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23525]

3   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 269  [AotW citation 23526]