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Federal (USV)

Private

William A. Wood

(c. 1820 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 41 year old painter, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 December 1861 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company I of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 November 164 and mustered out with them on 20 December 1864.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1820

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 23657]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23658]

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. 445 [AotW citation 23659]

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