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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Walter George Wayne

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 66th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 31 in New York City in Company F, 66th New York Infantry on 2 October 1861. He mustered as Corporal on 4 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to his right knee and thigh in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 24 September 1862 but died there of wounds on 3 November 1862. He was reinterred from his original burial in Frederick to the new National Cemetery about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service information from the State of New York2. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Walter G. Winn. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His name also recorded as Walter George Winn and Walter G. Wynne.

Birth

c. 1830

Death

11/03/1862; 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 4328]

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 27 (for the year 1901), pg. 905 [AotW citation 7948]

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 #324 [AotW citation 22595]

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