William W. Corbin

For at least part of 1860 he was a 22 year old day laborer living with his widowed mother Maria and 4 younger siblings in Henry County, OH, but also lived in Cumberland, MD with his wife and daughter. On 7 August 1862, by then a 25 year old laborer in Huntingdon County, PA (some 80 miles north of Cumberland), he enlisted there and mustered in Harrisburg on 13 August as a Private in Company I, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

His widow and children began receiving US pensions in December 1862.

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 (2 records). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rebecca Julia Shaw (later Heller, 1839-1921) in April 1858 and they had 2 daughters and a son; the youngest, Elmer Ellsworth Corbin, was born on 24 July 1862.

c. 1838; Mifflin County, PA

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, PA