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(? - 1862)
Home State: Delaware
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Delaware Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted as Corporal, Company I, 3rd Delaware Infantry on 30 December 1861 in Camden, DE.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Frederick, MD on 14 October 1862. He was reinterred from burial in Frederick, MD to the National Cemetery after the War.
References & notes
Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as William Gannon. Service from his Compiled Military Service Records (via the Historical Data Systems database).
Death
10/14/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3531]