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(1843 - 1907)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 17 year old factory worker living with manufacturer (and City Sheriff) Ira D Clinton and family in Waterbury, CT. Giving his home as Brookfield, he enlisted and mustered as a Corporal in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863, was promoted to Corporal on 1 June 1865 and to Sergeant on 1 July. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
In 1880 he was working in a boot shop in Hopkinton, MA but by 1900 was in Ontario, San Bernardino County, CA.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as William P. Turrell. Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as WIlliam Terrill. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Cole Hickok (1849-1929) in 1877 or 1878.
Birth
04/1843 in CT
Death
11/20/1907; San Bernardino, CA; burial in Bellevue Memorial Park, Ontario, CA
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. 353 [AotW citation 30796]