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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

William Wade

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 10th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 28 year old house carpenter living with his mother Ruth in Westbrook, Cumberland County, ME. He served in Company I, First Maine Infantry, a 3-month unit, as Sergeant from 3 May to 5 August 1861. Then age 29, from Westbrook, he mustered as Sergeant, Company I, 10th Maine Infantry on 4 October 1861. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His mother began receiving a pension based on William's service in October 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service basics from the Maine AG.2 Personal details from his Pension Card, online from fold3, and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1832 in ME

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 4304]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 288 [AotW citation 17353]

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