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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Watson

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year wood carver in Philadelphia, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 17 January 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter at Fredericksburg, VA on 11 December 1862.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1840

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 23643]

2   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23644]

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. 430  [AotW citation 23645]