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Federal (USV)

Private

William Bruce

(c. 1818 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 60th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 43 years, he enlisted on 30 September 1861 at Ogdensburg to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company H, 60th New York Infantry on 30 October.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the left chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital near SHarpsburg, and briefly in a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, 27 - 28 September, but died of wounds in a hospital in Alexandria, VA on 16 November 1862.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 Frederick detail from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on FIndagrave.

Birth

c. 1818

Death

11/16/1862; Alexandria, VA; burial in Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, VA

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 145 [AotW citation 16933]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 26, pg. 674 [AotW citation 22428]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #465 [AotW citation 22429]

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