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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Seavey

(? - 1864)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, a farmer from Biddeford, Maine on enlistment in July 1861. He was in Company A.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Captured in action 1 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA, and died a prisoner at Andersonville, GA on 3 September 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1.

Death

09/03/1864; Andersonville, GA

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. 3 - 10  [AotW citation 6591]