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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

William H. Harvey

(? - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an engineer, and enlisteed 20 June 1861 in Company A, 21st Virginia Infantry. He was appointed Lieutenant (no date).

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds 1 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial and basic unit information from a list in Confederate Veteran1, which lists him as W.H. Harvin, Company F. His name and Company from the Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors Database. Service details from Riggs2.

Death

10/01/1862; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV

Notes

1 United Confederate Veterans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veteran Magazine (1893-1932), 1893-01-00, Vol. XIX, pp. 75 - 76 [AotW citation 5092]

2 Riggs, Susan A., 21st Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (VA): H.E. Howard, Inc., 1991, pp. 59-98 [AotW citation 8495]

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