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Federal (USV)

Private

William Rutledge

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company A, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. He mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 in New York City.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Rutlidge, and his Muster Roll Extract in the NY State Archives, via fold3.

Birth

c. 1830

Notes

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 23 (for the year 1900)  [AotW citation 8578]