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William C. Zahn
Name: William C. Zahn
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st VA Union Cav.;12th MD Inf; 11th MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Smoketown, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 09/21/1862
Company: B (12th); F (11th)
Rank at End of Service: Sergeant
Notes:
Enlisted as a Private in the 1st VA Cavalry (CSA) from 9/21/1862 to 5/23/1863; Joined the Union army by enlisting as a Sergeant in the Co. B, 12th Regt. MD Inf. on 6/18/1864; transferred to Co. F, 11th Regt. MD Inf. and served until 6/15/1865
Source(s):
Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998), 248; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 408; United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
