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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William M. Murphy

(c. 1838 - 1876)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his residence as Norwich, CT, he enlisted on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

He was captured, possibly wounded, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862 and was discharged for disability on 5 May 1863. He began receiving a veteran's pension later that month.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His capture at Antietam also in Major Ward's after-action report. Death and burial details from the Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans (1879-1903), National Archives.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

03/13/1876; burial in Catholic Cemetery, Norwich, CT

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. 339 [AotW citation 30816]

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