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(c. 1824 - 1890)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 38 year old teamster in Charlestown, MA, he enlisted and mustered there on 12 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 29th Massachusetts Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot that "shattered his hip" in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Philadelphia on 1 October. He was discharged for wounds on 10 January 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a laborer in Melrose, MA.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as William Story and William Storey. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and Nelson;4 who got the shattered hip quote from the New York Times of 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Hannah Elizabeth Taylor (1831-1905) and they had at least 11 children between 1854 and 1872.
Birth
c. 1824; Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Death
01/11/1890; burial in Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 320 [AotW citation 29968]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29969]
3 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 #4.817 [AotW citation 29970]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 404 [AotW citation 29971]