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Federal (USV)

Private

William J. Stonus

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted and mustered in Albany on 17 May 1861 as a Private in Company C, 18th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as William J. Storm. His service basics from the State of New York.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, as W. J Storms.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, 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 4233]

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, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 19, p. 1066  [AotW citation 31288]