William Pickney Buchanan First Lieutenant, United States Army |
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young soldier drowned in the East Nodaway River near Hawleyville, Iowa,
while serving with the United States 6th Infantry, on September 20, 1822.
He was originally buried in the West and was eventually reinterred in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery on May 4, 1904. Buchanan, William Pinckney Buchanan of Virginia Appointed from Virginia, Cadet, United States Military Academy, 27 October 1816 (12) Third Lieutenant of Ordnance, 1 July 1820 Transferred to the 2nd United States Artilley, 1 June 1821 to rank as Lieutenant from 1 July 1820 Resigned his commission 31 March 1822 Second Lieutenant, 6th United States Infantry, 21 June 1822 Drowned 20 September 1822 BUCHANAN, WILLIAM PINCKNEY
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