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+The Baltimore Sun, June 29, 1864
+KILLED, whilst leading his regiment in a charge upon the enemy’s works at Petersburg, Va, on Saturday, the 18th instant, Lieutenant Colonel W. B. DORRELL, commanding the Third Regiment Delaware Volunteers. He was the son in-law of Major James McGowan, of Ellicott’s Mills, whose youngest daughter. Addie V., he married only five brief months ago. He was one of the first to volunteer in 1861 under the call for troops to serve for three months, enlisting as a private. On the expiration of his term he re-enlisted for three years, with the rank of Captain, from which position he earned his promotion to the post he held at the time of his death, in the 25th year of his age. Young as he was, it is not too much to say that no nobler life than his has been laid upon the altar of our nation’s freedom. A sincere Christian, he was as remarkable for the habitual modesty of his demeanor as he was for coolness and courage in the hour of battle and danger. He lived after receiving his wound only long enough to send a loving "farewell" to the young wife he was never more to meet on earth, and to say to the soldiers who carried him from the field, who loved and honored him as a friend and brother. "Fight on, boys, your cause is holy!"
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Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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