William Scott

Residence Groton VT; 22 years old.
Enlisted on 7/10/1861 at Groton, VT as a Private.
On 7/16/1861 he mustered into "K" Co. VT 3rd Infantry
He died of wounds on 4/17/1862
He was listed as:
* Wounded 4/16/1862 Lee's Mills, VA
Other Information:
born 4/9/1839 in Groton, VT
Buried: Yorktown National Cemetery, Yorktown, VA

(This soldier was known as "The sleeping sentinel" who
was pardoned by President Lincoln)

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- Roster of Vermont Volunteers During the War of the Rebellion 1861-66
- Photo Courtesy of New York State Military Museum
- Research by Edward Schoenberger
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NOTES:

William Scott Co. K 3rd VT Infantry

Brothers:

Daniel W. Scott Co. B 6th VT Infantry
George Scott Co. B 6th VT Infantry
Joseph W. Scott Co. B 6th VT Infantry
John W. Scott Co. B 6th VT Infantry

William Scott was the "Sleeping Sentinel" who, while the
regiment was at Chain Bridge (Washington, DC), was sentenced to
be shot, and whom President Lincoln visited, and, upon
investigation of the facts, pardoned.

Chittenden in his "Recollections of President Lincoln" (page
260) states that Scott when dying of wounds received in battle
said to his comrades:
"If any of you ever have the chance, I wish you would tell
President Lincoln that I have never forgotten the kind words he
said to me at the Chain Bridge, that I have tried to be a good
soldier and true to the flag - that I should have paid my whole
debt to him if I had lived; and that now, when I know that I am
dying, I think of his kind face and thank him again, because he
gave me the chance to fall like a soldier in battle, and not
like a coward by the hands of my comrades."

-- source: Vermont Volunteers, Theodore S. Peck page 105
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