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Federal (USV)

Private

George W. Wilday

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 25 year old engineer in Philadelphia, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 March 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company H, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 November 1864 and mustered out on 12 March 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates,2 also as George W. Willday and Wildey. Wound detail from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1837

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 23649]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23650]

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. 437 [AotW citation 23651]

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