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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Terwilliger

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He went to Connecticut with his family in about 1851 and in 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with his parents and 5 siblings in North Stonington, CT. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was wounded again, at Petersburg, VA on 16 June 1864. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record,1 as William H Terwilleger. Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839; Mamakating, NY

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 350 [AotW citation 30789]

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