William Henry Lombard was a 35-year-old farmer, husband, and father of five children, when he enlisted as a Private in Company G of the 12th Regiment of the Michigan Infantry on December 19, 1861 in Vermontville, Michigan for a period of 3 years.
He was mustered into the service of the United States on January 8, 1862 at Niles, Michigan.
On April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing), he was wounded and taken as a prisoner of war by the Confederate Army and placed in prison in Montgomery, Alabama.
He was paroled from there on May 24, 1862 and made it back as far as Huntsville, Alabama where he died of dysentery at Huntsville Hospital #1.
First buried in Section 1, Row 2 or 3 with other Union Soldiers in what was to become Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, he was later reinterred at the Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an "unknown" grave.
© 2010 - 2023 Kathleen Paini Clemence
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Son of Ripley Lombard and Mary Polly Cook
Brother of:
Mary Ann Lombard (born-died abt 1812)
George V Lombard
Irene Lombard Boyer (abt 1815/New York; April 1860/Michigan)
Charles Lombard (born 1817; still researching)
Jane Eliza Lombard (born 1819; still researching)
Raphael C Lombard
Christopher C Lombard
Julia Caroline Lombard Bostwick
Hiram A Lombard
He was mustered into the service of the United States on January 8, 1862 at Niles, Michigan.
On April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing), he was wounded and taken as a prisoner of war by the Confederate Army and placed in prison in Montgomery, Alabama.
He was paroled from there on May 24, 1862 and made it back as far as Huntsville, Alabama where he died of dysentery at Huntsville Hospital #1.
First buried in Section 1, Row 2 or 3 with other Union Soldiers in what was to become Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, he was later reinterred at the Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an "unknown" grave.
© 2010 - 2023 Kathleen Paini Clemence
All Rights Reserved
Son of Ripley Lombard and Mary Polly Cook
Brother of:
Mary Ann Lombard (born-died abt 1812)
George V Lombard
Irene Lombard Boyer (abt 1815/New York; April 1860/Michigan)
Charles Lombard (born 1817; still researching)
Jane Eliza Lombard (born 1819; still researching)
Raphael C Lombard
Christopher C Lombard
Julia Caroline Lombard Bostwick
Hiram A Lombard
William Henry Lombard was a 35-year-old farmer, husband, and father of five children, when he enlisted as a Private in Company G of the 12th Regiment of the Michigan Infantry on December 19, 1861 in Vermontville, Michigan for a period of 3 years.
He was mustered into the service of the United States on January 8, 1862 at Niles, Michigan.
On April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing), he was wounded and taken as a prisoner of war by the Confederate Army and placed in prison in Montgomery, Alabama.
He was paroled from there on May 24, 1862 and made it back as far as Huntsville, Alabama where he died of dysentery at Huntsville Hospital #1.
First buried in Section 1, Row 2 or 3 with other Union Soldiers in what was to become Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, he was later reinterred at the Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an "unknown" grave.
© 2010 - 2023 Kathleen Paini Clemence
All Rights Reserved
Son of Ripley Lombard and Mary Polly Cook
Brother of:
Mary Ann Lombard (born-died abt 1812)
George V Lombard
Irene Lombard Boyer (abt 1815/New York; April 1860/Michigan)
Charles Lombard (born 1817; still researching)
Jane Eliza Lombard (born 1819; still researching)
Raphael C Lombard
Christopher C Lombard
Julia Caroline Lombard Bostwick
Hiram A Lombard
He was mustered into the service of the United States on January 8, 1862 at Niles, Michigan.
On April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing), he was wounded and taken as a prisoner of war by the Confederate Army and placed in prison in Montgomery, Alabama.
He was paroled from there on May 24, 1862 and made it back as far as Huntsville, Alabama where he died of dysentery at Huntsville Hospital #1.
First buried in Section 1, Row 2 or 3 with other Union Soldiers in what was to become Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, he was later reinterred at the Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an "unknown" grave.
© 2010 - 2023 Kathleen Paini Clemence
All Rights Reserved
Son of Ripley Lombard and Mary Polly Cook
Brother of:
Mary Ann Lombard (born-died abt 1812)
George V Lombard
Irene Lombard Boyer (abt 1815/New York; April 1860/Michigan)
Charles Lombard (born 1817; still researching)
Jane Eliza Lombard (born 1819; still researching)
Raphael C Lombard
Christopher C Lombard
Julia Caroline Lombard Bostwick
Hiram A Lombard
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