Civil War- Enlisted on 21 August 1863 at Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan; he was residing in Grand Rapids prior to his enlistment at 29 years of age; mustered in on 27 August 1862, Troop B, 5th Cavalry Regiment as a Private; promoted to Corporal; captured and imprisoned 19 October 1863 during the Battle of Buckland Mills (The Buckland Races), Fauquier County, Virginia; returned to his regiment 4 June 1864; promoted to Sergeant; wounded (gunshot fracture, right leg, with subsquent primary amputation in the middle third of femur) in action on 8 April 1865 at the Battle of Appomattox Station, Appomattox County, Virginia; commissioned 1st Lieutenant on 14 April 1865; mustered out on 31 August 1865 at Washington, D. C.
"Beckwith, W. G., Serg't, B, 5th Michigan Cav., age 31. April 8, '65. Right [leg]; circ. Surgeon A. K. St. Clair, 5th Mich. June 20th, necrotic bone removed, Discharged Sept. 1, '65." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office.
"Beckwith, W. G., Serg't, B, 5th Michigan Cav., age 31. April 8, '65. Right [leg]; circ. Surgeon A. K. St. Clair, 5th Mich. June 20th, necrotic bone removed, Discharged Sept. 1, '65." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office.
Civil War- Enlisted on 21 August 1863 at Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan; he was residing in Grand Rapids prior to his enlistment at 29 years of age; mustered in on 27 August 1862, Troop B, 5th Cavalry Regiment as a Private; promoted to Corporal; captured and imprisoned 19 October 1863 during the Battle of Buckland Mills (The Buckland Races), Fauquier County, Virginia; returned to his regiment 4 June 1864; promoted to Sergeant; wounded (gunshot fracture, right leg, with subsquent primary amputation in the middle third of femur) in action on 8 April 1865 at the Battle of Appomattox Station, Appomattox County, Virginia; commissioned 1st Lieutenant on 14 April 1865; mustered out on 31 August 1865 at Washington, D. C.
"Beckwith, W. G., Serg't, B, 5th Michigan Cav., age 31. April 8, '65. Right [leg]; circ. Surgeon A. K. St. Clair, 5th Mich. June 20th, necrotic bone removed, Discharged Sept. 1, '65." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office.
"Beckwith, W. G., Serg't, B, 5th Michigan Cav., age 31. April 8, '65. Right [leg]; circ. Surgeon A. K. St. Clair, 5th Mich. June 20th, necrotic bone removed, Discharged Sept. 1, '65." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office.
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