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(1839 - 1872)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their farm at Eaton Rapids, MI. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, First United States Sharpshooters on 5 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded, shot through both thighs, in a skirmish at Boteler's Ford on the Potomac River near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862; he was in the river when he was hit.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for wounds, date not given.
After the War
In 1870 he was a newly married farmer at Ferris Center in Montcalm County, MI.
References & notes
His service from Stevens,1 who says he died of his wounds, and the Michigan Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 - which has him as William Arthur Hamlin, born in Michigan - and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Fea (1843-1899) in May 1870 and they had a son Harry (1872-1951).
Birth
11/30/1839 in NY
Death
04/27/1872; burial in Sumner Cemetery, Sumner, MI
1 Stevens, Charles Augustus, Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, St. Paul (MN): The Price-McGill Company, 1892, pg. 210 [AotW citation 26149]
2 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915 [AotW citation 26150]