Willis W. Munson
He participated in all actions with the company until he was sent to away to the hospital on July 5, 1863, three days after the battle on Little Round Top. In his own words, "I left in July 1863 for Washin. and never returned to it [the 44th NY]. He transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps on November 15, 1863, and was shortly after detached as a mounted orderly for the Paymaster General's office and as a clerk in the U.S. Army's Adjutant General's Office. He was mustered out of the service in August 1865, and enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he spent much of his six years service continuing his clerk work in the Adjutant General's Office until his final discharge in 1871.
While with the army, he studied in the Columbia University Medical Department, from which he graduated in 1869. After his discharge, he returned to Otisco to practice medicine. He had one son with his wife Alma Kenyon. Harry Munson, born in 1874, moved to Nebraska.
Willis Munson was active in several professional and fraternal organizations including medical societies; the Morning Star Lodge No. 524, F. & A.M., and the GAR, Knapp Post, South Onondaga. He remained friends with fellow soldiers Erastus Miller, who also lived in Otisco, and Rensselaer Richardson, who lived in nearby Cardiff, after the war.
Partial Sources: Dwight H. Bruce (Ed.) Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co., 1896, Vol. II, p.222; New York State Archives, Grand Army of the Republic Records, 44th NY GAR File, testimonial of Willis W. Munson.