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W.H. Evans
(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 26th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
At age 18 he enlisted at Utica, NY in Company B, 26th New York Infantry on 30 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the AG's report, and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW. The picture here from a photograph in the collection of the New York Military Museum available online through the New York Heritage portal.
Birth
c. 1843
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 21 (for 1899) [AotW citation 7336]