William Young Woodbury

A stone cutter's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old shoemaker living with his parents and 4 younger siblings at Charlton, Worcester County, MA. He enlisted on 12 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 30 July.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his abdomen which broke parts of his pelvis and sacrum (lower spine) bones in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at a field hospital on the Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, then transferred to the Satterlee US Army General Hospital in West Philadelphia, PA. He was discharged there for disability from wounds on 24 March 1863. In May a pension examiner noted:

The wound still discharges where the ball entered, and several pieces of bone have been discharged. Stooping causes him pain.

In 1870 he was a stone cutter back in Charlton, MA, by 1880 also owned a quarry there, and in 1889 built a stone bridge over a mill stream near Oxford, MA (at a cost of $392). He was at Charlton to at least 1890, but in 1900 was superintendent of a stone quarry in Troy, NH.

His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as William T Woodbury. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,3 quoted above. The MSHWR has him as 30 years old and in Company C. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and George F. Daniels' History of the Town of Oxford, Massachusetts (1892). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann Moffitt (1842-1911) in February 1861 and they had 3 children.

09/19/1840; Charlton, MA

05/07/1903; Troy, NH; burial in North Cemetery, Oxford, MA