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Federal (USV)

Private

William Carter

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted in Philadelphia on 16 July 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company D, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry the same day.

On the Campaign

He died of pneumonia in camp on Bolivar Heights, VA on 18 November 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

11/18/1862; Bolivar Heights, VA; burial in Kensington Burial Ground, Philadelphia, 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 8073]

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 23141]

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