Image shows Lieutenant William Hemenway from the waist up. He wears a kepi with an embroidered Infantry hunting horn with an “18” at center on the front, dark frock coat with shoulder straps and sword belt with Model 1851 rectangular belt plate. Image is clear with good contrast. Paper has been cut in an oval and mounted which is a little different than usually seen. Reverse is blank except for collector information. ID is confirmed by an Internet image.

William W. Hemenway was born August 28, 1836 in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was a 24 year old clerk living in Wrentham when he enlisted as a Sergeant in Company I, 18^th Massachusetts Infantry. The regiment served in the 3^rd and 5^th Corps of the Army of the Potomac from October of 1861 to October of 1864.

Hemenway was commissioned a 2^nd Lieutenant on July 31, 1862. He was slightly wounded a month later on August 30^th at Second Bull Run. He stayed with the regiment and was wounded in the leg by a shell at Fredericksburg on December 13^th. He returned to the regiment in February and on the 25^th of that month Hemenway was promoted to 1^st Lieutenant. He was wounded for a third time at the Wilderness and promoted to Captain on June 4, 1864. He was finally mustered out on September 2, 1865. Besides his three wounds Hemenway saw service on the Peninsula, Antietam, Shepherdstown, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Rappahannock Station and Petersburg. He died in Milford, New Hampshire on March 16, 1918.

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