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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Henry Murray

(1841 - 1915)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 10 siblings in Henry County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Corporal in Company K, 19th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 2 July 1863 (commission dated 14 April 1864). He was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and resigned his commission on 14 September 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a merchant at Burlington in Delaware County, IN and in 1880 was a merchant in Muncie, IN and also County Auditor there. In 1900 he was a farmer in Liberty Township, Delaware County, and he'd retired there by 1910.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/11/1841; Henry County, IN

Death

03/15/1915; Dunkirk, IN; burial in Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, IN

Notes

1   State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 2, p. 175; Vol. 4, p. 406  [AotW citation 33307]