Parents : 
Father : Samuel B. McKibben
Mother : Melinda Godfrey

Date of Birth : 21years old as of Mar 4th 1864, Born about 1843, 19 as of oct 2 1862 ²
Place of Birth : Stockport, Morgan Cty, OH

Date of Death : Sept 5th 1918 ²
Place of Death : 
Cause of Death : 
Burial Information : Brick Cemetery, Morgan Cty. Ohio ⁴
Tombstone Inscription : McKibben William H Co. F 77th O.V.I 1841-1918 ⁴

Military Service : Civil War - 77th OH Infantry Co. F ²
Residence not listed; 19 years old. 
Enlisted on 12/14/1861 as a Private. 
On 12/14/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. OH 77th Infantry
Organized:Camp Tupper, Marietta, OH on 11/1/61

He was Discharged for disability on 10/10/1862 at Alton, IL

Disabled by insanity (Chronic Demntia) resulting from sunstroke. Stayed in the Central Lunatic Asylum in Columbus OH in 1863 and 1864 for about 2 years. Stayed at Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington D.C. (Admitted April 16 1869 there as of Dec. 30, 1874) for about 10yrs total. Sunstroke occured on June 26 1862. on the march of his Regiment from Lafayette to Moscow, Tennessee. Ran a high fever for a week after.

As per Milford McKibben, William had to be watched all the time or he would run off. William stayed at parents home in a room built of the house. It had an iron door and bars on the windows. William liked to do things in three's, He had to bath three time a day no matter the temprature. He had to have three eggs and three pieces of bacon to eat.
 

From	To	Brigade	Division	Corps	Army	Comment
Mar '62	May '62	3	5		District and Army of West Tennessee
May '62	Jul '62	2	5		District and Army of West Tennessee
Jul '62	Nov '62	2	5	District of Memphis	District and Army of West Tennessee
Aug '63	Jan '64	1	3		Arkansas Expedition
Jan '64	Mar '64	1	3	7	Department of Arkansas
Mar '64	May '64	2	3	7	Department of Arkansas
May '64	Feb '65	2	1	7	Department of Arkansas
Feb '65	Feb '65	3	3	Reserve	Army and Dept of the Gulf
Feb '65	Jul '65	3	3	13	Army and Dept of the Gulf

Seventy-seventh Infantry. - Cols., Jesse Hildebrand, William B. Mason; Lieut.-Cols., Wills De Hass, William E. Stevens; Maj., Benjamin D. Fearing.  This regiment was organized at Marietta, Columbus and other places in Ohio from Sept. 28, 1861, to Jan. 5, 1862, to serve for three years.  The original mem- bers (except veterans) were mustered out by companies at different dates from Dec. 10, 1864, to Jan. 3, 1865, by reason of expiration of term of service.  The organization, composed of veterans and recruits, was consolidated into a battalion of six companies on Jan. 17, 1865, and retained in service until March 8, 1866, when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the war department. ³

The following is a list of battles in which this regiment bore an honorable part, as given in the Official Army Register;  Shiloh, Falling Timber, siege of Corinth, Little Rock, Okolona, Prairie d'Ane, Marks' mills, Jenkins' ferry, Spanish Fort.  So reduced was the regiment by the losses in its first engagement at Shiloh, and by sickness, details and straggling, that it numbered but a little over 200 men, with 13 officers, the loss in the battle and the subsequent affair at Falling Timber being 50 killed, 114 wounded and 56 missing - total, 220.  Gen. Sherman commended the conduct of the regiment in its determined and protracted struggle for the position at Shiloh church and in baffling the enemy in all his attempts to capture Taylor's battery.  The regiment took part in all the active operations of Sherman's division during the siege of Corinth, constructing field-works, roads and bridges, picketing, skirmishing and fighting, until the division rested beyond Corinth, returning from pursuit of the enemy.  From Aug., 1862, until July, 1863, it was in charge of the military prisons at Alton, Ill.  A portion of the regiment was captured at Marks' Mills, and those not captured lost at Jenkins' ferry, in killed and wounded, more than half their number.  Its strength at time of muster out was 365. ³