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Federal (USV)

Private

George P. J. McKinney

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted in Reading on 5 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company B, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 14 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Lyceum Hall hospital in Hagerstown, MD and was discharged in Reading on 29 November 1862 for disability from wounds.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1843

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23967]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23968]

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, pg. 314 [AotW citation 23969]

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