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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. McLaughlin

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his mother and 6 siblings in Rochester, NY. He enlisted and mustered there at age 21 as a Private in Company A, 108th New York Infantry on 8 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot which entered at the base of his skull below his right ear, shattered his lower jaw, and lodged in his cheekbone, also severing branches of his carotid artery.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the Carver Hospital in Washington, DC on 26 September, had serious bleeding from his face on 15, 21 and 22 October, and died there on 24 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841; Rochester, NY

Death

10/24/1862; Washington, DC; burial in US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1903, Ser. No. 34, pg. 259 [AotW citation 25958]

2 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. 315 [AotW citation 25959]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 352 [AotW citation 31413]

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