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Federal (USV)

Private

Dennis Barry

(? - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 26 year old tailor in Boston, he enlisted on 26 July 1861 in Company E, 19th Massachusetts Infantry. He was wounded in the head in action near Glendale, VA on 30 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson,1 who has him as Dennis Berry, and service information from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines.2

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 131  [AotW citation 16409]

2   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 441  [AotW citation 17755]