Enlisted on 27 July 1861 at Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan for a 3-year term; he was residing in Branch County prior to his enlistment at 17 years of age; mustered in on 14 September 1861, Company E, Michigan 1st Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; accidentally killed at Savage, Howard County, Maryland when attempting to jump from or between moving railroad cars. (The U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865 records his name as William Barnum, dying on 15 October and "Falling from cars.")
Enlisted on 27 July 1861 at Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan for a 3-year term; he was residing in Branch County prior to his enlistment at 17 years of age; mustered in on 14 September 1861, Company E, Michigan 1st Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; accidentally killed at Savage, Howard County, Maryland when attempting to jump from or between moving railroad cars. (The U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865 records his name as William Barnum, dying on 15 October and "Falling from cars.")
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