William A. Beagle

Mustered into service as a Private on July 29th, 1861

Born August 1844

Died 11 February 1933

Buried Sayre-Doxey Cemetery, Beckham County Oklahoma

 

Photo by Eunice Chapmond - Kilgore

Private Beagle was discharged from the 19th Indiana for disability on October 22nd, 1862 while in a hospital in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

He was born in Pennsylvania and returned there after leaving the Army. On September 28th, 1863 he was drafted into Company H of the 149th Pennsylvania Infantry known as the "Bucktails". He was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5th, 1864 and would muster out with the regiment on June 24th, 1865.

 

William would fight in many of the same battles as the 19th Indiana did in 1864 and 1865.

 

He filed for a pension in May of 1880.

 

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