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Federal (USV)

Private

William B. Hayes

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 20 in Company K, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 3 September 1862.

On the Campaign

He arrived on the field with his Division on 18 September 1862 but was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 October with typhoid fever and died there on 7 November 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1 with service detail from Bates2. Hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1842

Death

11/19/1862; Frederick, 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 3626]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 13555]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #858 [AotW citation 25373]

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