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Pvt William Henry Sykes

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Pvt William Henry Sykes

Birth
North Carolina, USA
Death
25 Mar 1865 (aged 24)
Indiana, USA
Burial
Wayne County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Civil War Union veteran of the 19th Indiana Infantry, Company B. He was a son of Jesse Sykes and Catharine Rogerson (1818-1848). He and his brother Joseph enlisted on July 29, 1861 and were mustered into the Company B "Richmond City Greys" as Privates. William was wounded at the Battle of Brawner Farm on Aug. 28, 1862 and wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. He was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and eventually sent to the Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He was then sent to the rebel prison in Florence, South Carolina where he was to be liberated. He died the day after he returned home to Indiana.

William's brother Joseph Sykes survived the war. He was one of only a handful of men from Company B that served from the very beginning of the war in 1861 to the very end of the war in 1865, surviving many of the most hard fought battles of the war.∼Son of Jesse and Catherine Sikes
Enlisted in Co. B, 19th Reg. Ind. Vol. Inf., July 1861 for three years; was in the battles of Second Bull run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Wilderness. In the latter of which he was taken prisoner and confined at Andersonville, GA and other prisons until February 1865 when he was exchanged, came home and died soon after.
Civil War Union veteran of the 19th Indiana Infantry, Company B. He was a son of Jesse Sykes and Catharine Rogerson (1818-1848). He and his brother Joseph enlisted on July 29, 1861 and were mustered into the Company B "Richmond City Greys" as Privates. William was wounded at the Battle of Brawner Farm on Aug. 28, 1862 and wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. He was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and eventually sent to the Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He was then sent to the rebel prison in Florence, South Carolina where he was to be liberated. He died the day after he returned home to Indiana.

William's brother Joseph Sykes survived the war. He was one of only a handful of men from Company B that served from the very beginning of the war in 1861 to the very end of the war in 1865, surviving many of the most hard fought battles of the war.∼Son of Jesse and Catherine Sikes
Enlisted in Co. B, 19th Reg. Ind. Vol. Inf., July 1861 for three years; was in the battles of Second Bull run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Wilderness. In the latter of which he was taken prisoner and confined at Andersonville, GA and other prisons until February 1865 when he was exchanged, came home and died soon after.

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