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Federal (USV)

Private

William Davis

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 121st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted at Newport as Private, Company C, 121st New York Infantry on 23 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He died of typhoid fever at Burkittsville, MD on 7 (or 9) December 1862.

After the War

He was initially buried in Burkittsville and was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the State of New York.2

Birth

c. 1844

Death

12/07/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3411]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1903, Ser. No. 36, pg. 48 [AotW citation 25082]

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