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Biographical Note
William Franklin Patterson, born in 1826, was a civil engineer in Kentucky and captain and organizer of a company of independent infantry used by the Union Army as engineers during the Civil War and later transferred as a Pioneer Corps to Headquarters, 13th Army Corps. Patterson served at Cumberland Gap in 1862 and in the siege of Vicksburg in 1863. He also served with the Department of the Gulf in Texas and Louisiana. He died in 1886.