William Estes Hacker

A prosperous coal dealer's son, in 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and siblings in Worcester, MA. He graduated from the Highland Military School in 1861, by then having been cadet Captain for 2 years. In September he volunteered as aide de camp to Brigadier General James Cooper, who was organizing a brigade of Maryland troops, and on 1 May 1862, still just 17 years old, he enrolled and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, 3rd Maryland Infantry .

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He recovered at home in Worchester into November, then in a hospital at Camac's Woods in Philadelphia, and returned to his Company in January 1863. He had been promoted to First Lieutenant on 30 October 1862 and was promoted again, to Captain on 1 February 1863, but he died of typhoid fever in a hospital at Aquia Creek Landing, VA on 28 March 1863.

His service from Wilmer.1. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and a bio sketch in P.C. Headley's Massachusetts in the Rebellion (1866). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs now at the Library of Congress.

08/20/1844; Philadelphia, PA

03/28/1863; Stafford, VA; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA