W.N. Pratt

Federal (USV)

Private

William N. Pratt

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 59th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted 25 November 1861 in Putnam County, NY and mustered as Private, Company I, 59th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for wounds in February 1863 from Carver Hospital, Washington, DC.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the Report and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW. Further details and his photograph from the NY State Military Museum2.

Death

Date not known; in NY

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 26 (for the year 1900) [AotW citation 8780]

2 State of New York, and Division of Military & Naval Affairs, New York State Military Museum, Published c. 2000, first accessed 01 January 2002, <http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/mil-hist.htm>, Source page: http://24.39.195.147/dbtw-wpd/images/photographs/PA.1999.001 [AotW citation 12149]

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