William Scott
Military Person
1839 – 1862
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Who was William Scott?
William Scott was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He was the "Sleeping Sentinel" who was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln and memorialized by a poem and then a 1914 silent film.
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- Born
- 1839
Groton - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Apr 17, 1862
Yorktown
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on July 23, 2013
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