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Federal (USV)

Private

Eugene McCann

(c. 1826 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 36, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company B, 69th New York Infantry on 18 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was again wounded, in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 20 January 1864.

References & notes

Service from the New York Adjutant General.1 His Antietam wound from McLernon,2 citing an official published casualty list.

Birth

c. 1826

Notes

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, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 28, pg. 213 [AotW citation 18264]

2 McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 69th New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Bloody Lane, Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2014, pg. 35 [AotW citation 18265]

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