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Federal (USV)

Private

John Will

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 57th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was 20 years old when he enlisted in Company B, 57th NY Infantry on 3 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Frederick, MD on 16 October 1862. He was removed from his original burial in Frederick, MD and reinterred in the National Cemetery in or before 1867.

References & notes

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which has his death date as 11 October. Service information from State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

10/16/1862; 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 4358]

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 26 (for 1900), pg. 141 [AotW citation 7756]

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