Howard Carroll

(? - 1862)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 105th New York Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was a railroad engineer building bridges for the New York Central by 1859.1

In the Antietam Campaign:
Just after dawn on 17 September "[t]he 105th and 104th New York, on reaching the south edge of the corn pushed out into the open field 160 and 120 yards respectively and were opened upon with such vigor by Lawton's right and the 12th Georgia, and S.D.Lee's guns, that they soon fell back to the corn, the former carrying with it, its mortally wounded commander, Lieutenant Colonel Howard Carroll".2

The remainder of the War:
He died of wounds 29 September 1862 in Washington DC.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Death data from New York3.

Death Date: 09/29/1862 Death Place: Washington, DC Burial Place: Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, NY

Notes

1 Article transcribed online by Thomas Ehrenreich.
Cooper, Theodore, American Railway Bridges, Engineering News and American Railway Journal, 1889-07-06 [AotW citation 402]

2 Carman, Ezra Ayers, Papers of Ezra Ayers Carman, 1861-1909, Washington, DC: US Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 1912, draft Chapter 15 [AotW citation 403]

3 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 [AotW citation 7151]

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