Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry
From a Philadelphia family, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 19 March 1862.
He was mortally wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September.
His leg was probably amputated the same day, and he died of his wounds on 15 November 1862 at the Smoketown field hospital near Sharpsburg. He was reinterred from his original burial on the field at Smoketown to the new National Cemetery about 1867.
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Medical details from the MSHWR,2 as W. Tickner, and Nelson3, citing a casualty list in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 25 September 1862, as William Tichner. Personal details from Hunnewell's The Ticknor family in America (1919). He's not found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers.
11/15/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry
From a Philadelphia family, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 19 March 1862.
He was mortally wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September.
His leg was probably amputated the same day, and he died of his wounds on 15 November 1862 at the Smoketown field hospital near Sharpsburg. He was reinterred from his original burial on the field at Smoketown to the new National Cemetery about 1867.
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Medical details from the MSHWR,2 as W. Tickner, and Nelson3, citing a casualty list in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 25 September 1862, as William Tichner. Personal details from Hunnewell's The Ticknor family in America (1919). He's not found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers.
11/15/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry
From a Philadelphia family, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 19 March 1862.
He was mortally wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September.
His leg was probably amputated the same day, and he died of his wounds on 15 November 1862 at the Smoketown field hospital near Sharpsburg. He was reinterred from his original burial on the field at Smoketown to the new National Cemetery about 1867.
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Medical details from the MSHWR,2 as W. Tickner, and Nelson3, citing a casualty list in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 25 September 1862, as William Tichner. Personal details from Hunnewell's The Ticknor family in America (1919). He's not found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers.
11/15/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry
From a Philadelphia family, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 19 March 1862.
He was mortally wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September.
His leg was probably amputated the same day, and he died of his wounds on 15 November 1862 at the Smoketown field hospital near Sharpsburg. He was reinterred from his original burial on the field at Smoketown to the new National Cemetery about 1867.
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Medical details from the MSHWR,2 as W. Tickner, and Nelson3, citing a casualty list in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 25 September 1862, as William Tichner. Personal details from Hunnewell's The Ticknor family in America (1919). He's not found in Bates' History of Pennsylvania Volunteers.
11/15/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
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PVT D 90 HE INF
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