Corp. William H. YinglingVeteran

Private William H. Yingling was born on February 17, 1823. He married his wife Mary Ann on March 9, 1846, and the couple had five children: Jacob, Louisiana, William, Florence, and Francis. Yingling enlisted in the Union Army at the age of thirty-eight and was mustered into service as a Second Corporal in Company B, First Maryland Infantry Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade on September 6, 1861 at Frederick, Maryland. Captured at Harper’s Ferry on September 15, 1862, he was paroled and sent to Alexandria, Virginia in November 1862. Listed as Absent Without Leave in November and December 1862, Yingling was required to forfeit twenty days’ pay. Listed as sick and in general hospital in Frederick in September and October 1863, Yingling was mustered out at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia on September 6, 1864 as a Private. Working as a painter after the war, Yingling lived in Westminster before becoming a tinsmith and moving to Uniontown by 1880. Yingling died on January 20, 1885.