William H Yerkes

1 May 2020

Private William H Yerkes enlisted in the 128th Pennsylvania Infantry at Doylestown in August 1862 and lost his foot in action at Antietam a month later. He worked in the US Army Quartermaster Department in Washington, DC to the end of the war, and afterward was in the ice business there.

This post-war photograph of William was contributed to the Family Search database by Megan Bell [free membership required].

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