[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

James Cunningham

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company I, 69th New York Infantry on 21 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter when he failed to return on the expiration of his furlough, 14 February 1863, at New York City.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1831

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. 73 [AotW citation 18308]

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. 37 [AotW citation 18309]

« Search for another Person