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Federal (USV)

Private

William Laymon

(? - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

From Johnson County, he mustered as Private, Company H, 19th Indiana Infantry on 29 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Middletown, MD on 11 October 1862. He was reinterred from his original burial in Middletown to the new National Cemetery, grave #3483, in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as William Layman. Service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

10/11/1862; Middletown, 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 3774]

2 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, pg. 403 [AotW citation 20639]

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