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Sly, William J.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 18, credited to Danville, VT
Unit(s): 4th VT INF
Service: enl 3/19/62, m/i 4/12/62, Pvt, Co. H, 4th VT INF, mwia, Weldon Railroad, 6/23/64, d/wds 7/4/64

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1844, Ryegate, VT
Death: 07/04/1864

Burial: City Point National Cemetery, Hopewell, VA
Marker/Plot: D/787
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, mother Jane, 8/15/1864
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

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BURIAL:

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City Point National Cemetery, VA

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William J. Sly

St. Johnsbury Caledonian
July 22, 1864
At City Point Hospital, Va., July 2, Wm. J. Sly, aged 20 years, son of Mrs. Jane Sly of Danville. He died of a wound received in an engagement on the 23d of June . He was a member of Co. H, 4th Vt. Reg.

Contributed by Tom Boudreau.