W.H. Hedges

Federal (USV)

Private

William Henry Hedges

(1841 - 1863)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and younger sister on their farm at Indiana Furnace in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshots to his back and thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 22 September and transferred to Washington, DC on 25 September. He was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Park Ranger Peter Maugle.

Birth

12/24/1841 in IN

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA; burial in Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA

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. 4, p. 287 [AotW citation 33406]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #326 [AotW citation 33407]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 243 [AotW citation 33408]

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