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William Hamilton Overman resided in the town of Salisbury with his parents and four siblings. His father was a wealthy merchant and owned sixteen slaves. William was “seventeen years, 7 mos. and 0 days” old, and by occupation a student, when he was…

William Fessenden Beasley (born February 10, 1845) lived with his brother and widowed mother in the town of Plymouth, Washington County. In 1861 he was a cadet at a military academy, although which one is unknown. The creation of so many new…