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Federal (USV)

Private

William A. North

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Berlin, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 20 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

More on the Web

His cemetery pointer from a post by John Banks.

Birth

c. 1836; Berlin, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Wilcox Cemetery, East Berlin, CT

Notes

1   Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 656 - 663  [AotW citation 5567]

2   State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 632  [AotW citation 27191]