Company A
Private
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18th New York Infantry
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Company A
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Company F
Private
Witherell, Wyman. Also borne as Wetherall. Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Franklin, NY, to serve three years, and mustered in as private, July 14, 1863; died of disease, March 29, 1864, at Washington, DC. Section F, Grave 424. United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery
Company K
Private
James Kirk was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., in January, 1845. He died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in June, 1925. He served for the two-year duration of the regiment, lived in Albany, N.Y., for a year and then in New York City until about 1870, when he moved to Wilkes-Barre. He became a baggage man for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He received a pension, remarried when his first wife died and raised two families. He retired at 75 and was killed at age 80 when struck by a train. He is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Hanover Township, Pa. He left numerous descendants.