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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Robert McNally

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old carpenter in Northbridge, he enlisted 1 October and mustered as Sergeant, Company C, 28th Massachusetts Infantry on 13 December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring Hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD but died there of wounds on 22 September 1862.

References & notes

Service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Hospital detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/22/1862; Keedysville, MD

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 214 [AotW citation 20127]

2 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. 317 [AotW citation 20128]

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