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Federal (USV)

Private

William Fiddler

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old farmer from Fayetteville, he mustered as Private, Company D, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His left arm was amputated and he died of wounds on 5 October 1862 near Sharpsburg. He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in 1866 or 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Details from Brown2 and the Historical Data Systems database. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

10/05/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 3491]

2 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 587 [AotW citation 7969]

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