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Federal (USV)

Private

William Harrison Ashton

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old blacksmith' apprentice in Philadelphia, he enlisted there on 6 June 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 6 July in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File,2 as Harrison Ashton. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840; Philadelphia, PA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 1, pp. 448 - 455 [AotW citation 8072]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23140]

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