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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted in Company D, 30th Ohio Infantry at age 19 on 16 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Middletown, MD on 11 October 1862. His brother John, also in Company D, died of wounds 4 days later in a hospital in Frederick, MD. William was reinterred from burial in Middletown to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.
References & notes
More on the Web
His name is on the Company D, 30th Ohio Volunteer Regiment Monument (dedicated 4 July 1876) in New Lexington, OH; more about it online [search monuments] from the Cincinnati Museum Center.
Birth
c. 1842 in OH
Death
10/11/1862; Middletown, 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 3969]
2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 407 [AotW citation 14642]