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Federal (USV)

Private

William Ellis

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old farmer in Worcester, MA, he enlisted and mustered there as a Private in Company K, 21st Massachusetts Infantry on 19 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through his left hand in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Patterson Park US Army General Hospital in Baltimore, MD and was discharged for disability there on 29 December 1862. He began receiving a veterans pension for disability in March 1864.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines1 and his Compiled Service Records via fold3. His wounding on South Mountain also in Walcott's History.2

Birth

c. 1841 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, p. 643 [AotW citation 33691]

2 Walcott, Charles Folsom, History of the Twenty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the War for the Preservation of the Union, 1861-1865, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882, p. 191 [AotW citation 33692]

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