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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted on 23 April 1861 in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company D, 9th New York Infantry on 4 May. He was promoted to Corporal on 19 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot that broke his left thigh bone in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville and at the Smoketown Hospital at Sharpsburg. He was discharged for disability on 2 April 1863.
After the War
His mother began receiving a US pension from his service in September 1890.
References & notes
His service from Graham1 and the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson3 and a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry
Birth
c. 1842
1 Graham, Matthew John, The Ninth Regiment, New York Volunteers (Hawkins' Zouaves), New York: E.P. Coby & Company, Printers, 1900, pp. 591 - 594 [AotW citation 14189]
2 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, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 18, p. 691 [AotW citation 30487]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 259 [AotW citation 30488]