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W.W. Brigham
(1837 - 1907)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted March 4, 1861, as a Corporal in Company B, 13th Mass. Infantry. W
On the Campaign
Wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He mustered out of the 13th Infantry on October 22, 1862 - discharged for wounds - at Harrisburg, PA. Commissioned 1st Lt. 7th Mass. Heavy Artillery, promoted Capt. Company C, 3rd Mass. Heavy Artillery. Mustered out Sept. 18, 1865.
References & notes
Basic information from Soldiers1, with detailed narrative above by Dave Hann, who also supplied the photograph from his collection.
Birth
06/19/1837; Southboro, MA
Death
1907; burial in Southborough Rural Cemetery, Southborough, MA
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. 79 [AotW citation 5912]