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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Augustus Ball

(1842 - 1918)

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company A, 13th New Jersey Infantry on 7 August 1862 and mustered as Corporal on 25 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the foot in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at hospitals in Frederick, MD and Philadelphia, PA. He was discharged for wounds at Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, VA on 10 February 1863.

References & notes

Basic information from Toombs1. Casualty details from Nelson2. Service from Stryker.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/01/1842

Death

04/22/1918; Jersey City, NJ; burial in Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, NJ

Notes

1 Toombs, Samuel, Reminiscences of the War ... the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, Orange (NJ): The (Orange) Journal, 1878, pp. 15 - 21 [AotW citation 7836]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 121 [AotW citation 16247]

3 State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, pg. 630 [AotW citation 17155]

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