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Federal (USV)

Private

William Perry Whitson

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his widowed mother Isabella and 2 sisters in the home of laborer James Guy and his family at Martinsville in Morgan County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company H, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his company on 6 June 1864 in Indianapolis.

After the War

Family lore says he was killed in duel in Texas, date not given.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Isabella Devon (1843-) in April (?) 1864.

Birth

c. 1842 in 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. 4, p. 286 [AotW citation 33606]

2 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. 435 [AotW citation 33607]

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