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Federal (USV)

Private

William Spellman

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company E, 5th Ohio Infantry on 19 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Roster.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 4204]

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 [AotW citation 25327]

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