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Federal (USV)

Private

William McVety

(c. 1822 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 40 at Rochester, NY and mustered in as Private, Company F, 108th New York Infantry on 23 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 26 November for chronic rheumatism but died there on 12 December 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 History.1. Service from the State of New York.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1822

Death

12/12/1862; 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 3911]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 34 (for the year 1903), pg. 261 [AotW citation 8872]

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 #1.294 [AotW citation 25139]

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