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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. York

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, from Skowhegan, he mustered as Private, Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the thigh, his leg broken, in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September 1862, but died there of wounds on 14 November 1862.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde1. Service from the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1832

Death

11/14/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6621]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 169 [AotW citation 20801]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.872 [AotW citation 20802]

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