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Federal (USV)

Private

William Leach

(c. 1825 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 36, he enlisted on 30 September 1861 at Fullerville for two years and mustered as Private, Company D, 16th New York Infantry on 8 October.

On the Campaign

He died of disease at Hagerstown, MD on 23 November 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1825

Death

11/23/1862; Hagerstown, 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 3776]

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