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Federal (USA)

Private

William H. Ford

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old laborer, he enlisted at Toledo, OH in Company D, 2nd United States Infantry on 31 May 1858.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to both legs, probably in action near the Middle Bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 24 October to 22 December 1862 and he was discharged for disability on 6 February 1863 from the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown, DC.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 His wound and hospital information from the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1837; New York City, NY

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 053, pg. 66 [AotW citation 26427]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #103 [AotW citation 26428]

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