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Federal (USV)

Captain

Walter Forehand

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company G.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Age 35, a shoemaker from Grafton when commissioned on 12 July 1861. He had also been wounded at Ball's Bluff on 21 October 1861. Re resigned on 9 October 1862.

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 178  [AotW citation 5819]