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CPL William Wallace Story

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CPL William Wallace Story

Birth
Ohio, USA
Death
10 Jul 1863 (aged 24)
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
Indiana Plot, Section G, Site #9
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Served during Civil War with Co. E, 3rd Indiana Cavalry. He was wounded in the left side of his chest on 1 JUL 1863 in the early morning opening battle with the Confederates. He lingered for nine days before succumbing to his wound. He was originally buried in the United Presbyterian Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA and later reinterred in the National Cemetery. He was a resident of Jefferson Co., IN.

http://www.mjcpl.org/historyrescue/records/the-soldiers-reunion recounts at the Third Indiana Cavalry Reunion in 1885, the military action of July 1, 1863 and mentions the death of Corporal Story:

"...enabling our infantry army which was rapidly arriving to form their new line on Cemetery Hill, and along the rocky ledges putting out from Little Round top, where the next day and the next Meade’s army held out against the magnificent valor of Lee and Longstreet’s veterans and won the decisive battle of the war.

We lost Major Lemon, Sergeant Ibill Park, Corporal Story and fifty-eight others of our little regiment there."

SIBLINGS:
Lydia (Story) Butler (1837-1918)
Sarah (Story) Miser (1843-1929)
Alice Story (1847-1929)
John Calvin Story (1850-1922)
James Mason Story (1853-1936)
Albert Smith Story (1855-1917)
Ralph Walter Story (1861-1917)
Served during Civil War with Co. E, 3rd Indiana Cavalry. He was wounded in the left side of his chest on 1 JUL 1863 in the early morning opening battle with the Confederates. He lingered for nine days before succumbing to his wound. He was originally buried in the United Presbyterian Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA and later reinterred in the National Cemetery. He was a resident of Jefferson Co., IN.

http://www.mjcpl.org/historyrescue/records/the-soldiers-reunion recounts at the Third Indiana Cavalry Reunion in 1885, the military action of July 1, 1863 and mentions the death of Corporal Story:

"...enabling our infantry army which was rapidly arriving to form their new line on Cemetery Hill, and along the rocky ledges putting out from Little Round top, where the next day and the next Meade’s army held out against the magnificent valor of Lee and Longstreet’s veterans and won the decisive battle of the war.

We lost Major Lemon, Sergeant Ibill Park, Corporal Story and fifty-eight others of our little regiment there."

SIBLINGS:
Lydia (Story) Butler (1837-1918)
Sarah (Story) Miser (1843-1929)
Alice Story (1847-1929)
John Calvin Story (1850-1922)
James Mason Story (1853-1936)
Albert Smith Story (1855-1917)
Ralph Walter Story (1861-1917)

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WM. W. STORY.
CO. F. 3. CAVELRY.



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