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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Gilbert P. Whitman

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company H.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Age 24, a machinist from Northbridge on enlistment in May 1861. Discharged for wounds 5 January 1863 at Boston, MA.

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, pp. 188 - 190  [AotW citation 5893]