Born in Pittsburgh in April, 1824, William Biddle Cassilly was educated in Cincinnati at Woodward High School where he remained one year. His civilian occupations, most likely post Civil War, were as merchant and insurance agent. He would serve on Cincinnati's city council from 1852-1854. Cassilly would serve as a 1st Lieutenant in the 10th Ohio Infantry (three months), then as a lieutenant colonel in Missouri's Benton Cadets. After mustering out of the Cadets on January 8th, 1862, he would serve as lieutenant colonel of the 69th Ohio Infantry, and then move into his colonelcy of this regiment on August 10th. Cassilly would receive a gunshot wound in his left arm at Stones River, and be reported by his brigade commander, Timothy Stanley, as being so drunk that he was unfit to command, and Cassilly was dismissed. Cassilly would pass away on July 22nd, 1888.
William Biddle Cassilly is buried in Section 57, Lot 2, at Spring Grove.
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