William B. Roe

In 1860 he was a 28 year old carpenter in Plymouth, Wayne County, MI. He enrolled there on 30 July 1861 and was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company F, 16th Michigan Infantry on 7 September. He was detailed to the Signal Corps in March 1862.

On 11 September 1862 he was posted on Sugarloaf Mountain and was sent to Fairview Mountain, MD on 20 September.

He was promoted to Captain on 3 November and assigned to the Department of the Gulf in December 1862. He was at Baton Rouge, LA by 8 March 1863 and in April was appointed Chief Signal Officer (CSO) of the department. By May 1864 he was in Washington, DC as CSO to General Auger, 22nd Army Corps. On 17 February 1865 he was put in command of the Signal Camp, Georgetown, DC but resigned on 13 May 1865. He was discharged from his regiment for disability on 28 February 1865.

He died relatively young, at age 36, in Plymouth in 1867.

His basic service from the Record 1 with details from Brown,2 source also of his picture. Maryland Campaign events from Captain B.F. Fisher's Report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His birth date calculated from his age of 36 years, 1 month, 26 days at his death. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Jane Brumfield (1836-1859) in October 1853. He married again, her sister Ellen B Brumfield (1843-1934) in March 1864.

03/03/1831; Lyons, NY

04/29/1867; Plymouth, MI; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY