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W. Horsfall
(1816 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 18th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 44 year old carpenter living with his wealthy widowed mother, 4 or 5 siblings, and 2 servants in Schenectady, NY. He enrolled there on 2 May 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company E, 18th New York Infantry on 17 May. He was promoted to Captain on 27 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His memorial stone is engraved:
He fell cheering his men in the gallant and successful charge made by Gen. Slocum at the Battle of South Mountain near Burkettsville, Frederick Co.
MARYLAND
September 14. 1862.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of New York.1 Personal details the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the collection of the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, online from New York Heritage.
Birth
04/07/1816; Schenectady, NY
Death
09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD; burial in Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 19, p. 1009 [AotW citation 31280]