Birth: Feb. 29, 1840, Indiana.
Death: Nov. 18, 1922, Maryville, Nodaway County,Missouri.
Father: Elijah M. Ashford, b: Virginia
Mother: Elizabeth Dorrow, b: Pennsylvania.
Wife: Elizabeth Ashford, ( ?-1896.)
Born between 1840-1841.
Children: Eva S., Edith, Elizabeth, William R., Charles W. Ashford.
Burial: Miriam Cemetery, Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri .
Iowa State Records.
Ashford, William D. Veteran.) Age 21. Residence Columbus City, nativity Indiana. Enlisted Sept. 23, 1861, as Seventh Corporal. Mustered
Oct. 3, 1861. Promoted Sixth Corporal Dec. 8, 1861; Fifth Corporal
Jan. 1, 1862; Fourth Corporal Jan. 13, 1862; Third Corporal Jan. 17,
1862; Second Corporal March 12, 1862. Re-enlisted and re-mustered
Jan. 4, 1864. Wounded slightly Jan. 15, 1864, Yazoo City, Miss. Discharged for disability June 26, 1865, Louisville, Ky.
Medical and Surgical History of the War.
CASE 32. Corporal W. D. Ashford, Co. C, llth., Iowa, aged 24 years, was wounded at Yazoo City, March 5, 1864,
by a conoidal ball, which entered in the groin and emerged at the epigastric region. Secondary haemorrhage occurred, eight
days afterward, from the epigastric artery. The haemorrhage was controlled by a plaster of Paris compress. Tincture of myrrh
was given internally, and egg-nog and porter. He recovered, and was returned to duty on November 16, 1864.
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