William W. Macy

Son of physician William Macy, in 1860 he was an 18 year old laborer living with his parents and 6 siblings at Farmland in Randolph County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as 5th Sergeant of Company C, 19th Indiana Infantry.

He was wounded, slightly, in the scalp by a gunshot in action Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed First Lieutenant on 1 March 1863 and was again wounded in the head, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July. He transferred to Company I of the 20th Indiana Infantry at the consolidation of 18 October 1864, was promoted to Captain of Company A on 4 December, and mustered out with them on 12 July 1865.

In 1870 he was a lumber merchant at Winchester in Randolph County, IN, but for much of that decade he was a deputy sheriff, and was elected Sheriff 1878-1880. By 1885 and to at least 1911 he was a clerk in the Pension Office in Washington, DC.

Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 who says he was wounded at South Mountain rather than Antietam in 1862. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and the Official Register of the United States (1885, 1911). His gravesite is on Findagrave; listed as William Wilburforce Macy.

He married Nancy Alice Addington (1841-1913) in December 1867 and they had 2 sons.

10/17/1841; Farmland, IN

10/10/1913; Chicago, IL; burial in Fountain Park Cemetery, Winchester, IN