"William R.T. Armstrong [William V's father] died in Blackwolf, Wisconsin in 1867, two years after his discharge from the Union Army, having fought in the Civil War with his son William [V]. Both father and son enlisted together on March 5, 1864 in Fond du Lac, and went into the same company. William R.T. said on his papers that he was 44 years old, but he was really over 50. His son William was 17 yrs. old. They referred to the father as the oldest man in the company, and the son as the youngest man in the company. They were both discharged on the same day, July 12, 1865.
William, the son, was severely wounded in the Georgia offensive and was in the hospital for forty days before being sent back to the lines."
William, the son, was severely wounded in the Georgia offensive and was in the hospital for forty days before being sent back to the lines."
"William R.T. Armstrong [William V's father] died in Blackwolf, Wisconsin in 1867, two years after his discharge from the Union Army, having fought in the Civil War with his son William [V]. Both father and son enlisted together on March 5, 1864 in Fond du Lac, and went into the same company. William R.T. said on his papers that he was 44 years old, but he was really over 50. His son William was 17 yrs. old. They referred to the father as the oldest man in the company, and the son as the youngest man in the company. They were both discharged on the same day, July 12, 1865.
William, the son, was severely wounded in the Georgia offensive and was in the hospital for forty days before being sent back to the lines."
William, the son, was severely wounded in the Georgia offensive and was in the hospital for forty days before being sent back to the lines."
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