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(1840 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 88th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enrolled on 16 September 1861 in New York City, to serve three years, and mustered in as Captain, Company E, 88th New York Infantry on 2 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was originally buried on the battlefield, but was removed to Calvary by members of his Regiment on 21 October 1862. There is also a monument to him in the Ballybricken Churchyard, Waterford, Ireland.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1. Commissioned Captain, December 31, 1861, with rank from October 2, 1861, original. His middle name also seen as Felan. Thanks to Steve Maczuga for publishing the NY regimental information in his excellent database.
More on the Web
For more about the Captain and to (possibly) put a face to his name, see the post about him over at behind AotW.
Birth
05/05/1840; County Waterford, IRELAND
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905 [AotW citation 10782]