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Federal (USV)

Private

Hiram Kell Whittaker

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was 19 years old, and living with a boatman's family at Royalton, Berrien County, MI, and he enlisted in Company G, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 11 June 1861. He was detached to Battery B, 4th United States Artillery, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action while serving with Battery B at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of Wisconsin.1. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/13/1841 in IN

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 523 - 524 [AotW citation 10402]

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