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W. Tillotson
(1841 - 1863)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old day laborer living with his parents and 5 or 6 siblings on their farm near Hopeville in Clarke County, Iowa. 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 gunshot to his leg 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 28 September 1862. He was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as William Tillottson, of Vermillion County, IN. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a tintype contributed by Bill Marsh.
Birth
12/05/1841; Terra Haute, IN
Death
07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA
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. 288 [AotW citation 33465]
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 #340 [AotW citation 33466]