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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Todd

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 79th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 13 May 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as Private, Company B, 79th New York Infantry on 27 May. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at South Mountain on 14 September and in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted again, to Sergeant on 1 December 1863 and he mustered out with his Company in New York City on 31 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 His presence on the Maryland Campaign from his own History.2

Birth

c. 1839

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 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 1054 [AotW citation 29315]

2 Todd, William, The Seventy-ninth Highlanders, New York Volunteers in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865, Albany: Press of Brandow, Barton & Company, 1886, pp. 227-245 [AotW citation 29316]

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