Sweet, William
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 42, credited to Woodstock, VT Unit(s): 1st VT INF, 17th US INF Service: enl 5/2/61, m/i 5/9/61, 1SGT, Co. B, 1st VT INF, comn 2LT, 6/19/61 (6/19/61), m/o 8/15/61; comn 2LT, 8/5/61; pr CPT, 17th US INF, 10/26/61; died 10/11/64 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: abt 1819, Unknown Death: 10/11/1864 Burial: New Bern National Cemetery, New Bern, NC Marker/Plot: 06/0908 Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 3261570 Cenotaph: River Street Cemetery, Woodstock, VT Marker/Plot: Gravestone researcher/photographer: Joie Finley Morris + Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not Found Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  New Bern National Cemetery, New Bern, NC Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH:  Cenotaph in River Street Cemetery, Woodstock, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may have cenotaphs there. |
Obituary
Captain William Sweet, of Co. A, 17th U.S. Infantry, died of yellow fever at Newbern, S.C., on the 14th of October. At the breaking out of the rebellion Captain Sweet went as orderly of the Woodstock Light Infantry, of which he had always been a very zealous member . He served with his company the three months for which they were called out, and returning a lieutenant he was soon after commissioned Captain in the regular army. For some time and until within a few months he was commissary of musters, on General Slocum's staff, and at the time of his death was mustering officer at Newbern. He was long a citizen of this place. His age was forty-five.
Source: Green Mountain Freeman, Nov. 8, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.