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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

William Trainer

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company E.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Gould1. Had an arm "torn off" by an artillery round in action at Antietam.

Notes

1   Gould, Joseph, The Story of the Forty-eighth : a Record of the Campaigns of the Forty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry ..., Philadelphia: Regimental Association, 1908, pp. 82 - 90, 400 - 460 (rosters)  [AotW citation 5465]