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Federal (USV)

Surgeon

John McNulty

(1825 - 1899)

Home State: New York

Command Billet: Medical Director

Branch of Service: Medical

Unit: Fifth Army Corps

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enrolled on 27 May 1861 and mustered as Surgeon of the 37th New York Infantry on 7 June 1861. He was discharged 10 October to accept the commission as Surgeon, US Volunteers to date from 2 October 1861 and assigned to the staff of General Dix.

On the Campaign

He was Medical Director of the 5th Army Corps on the Maryland Campaign of 1862.

The rest of the War

He was Medical Director of the Twelfth Corps at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. He was honored by brevet to Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers on 2 June 1865 for his war service and mustered out on 27 July 1865.

References & notes

His service from Heitman1 and the Adjutant General.2 His roles in Maryland and at Gettysburg from Duncan.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1825 in NY

Death

09/14/1899; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Fort Dodge, IA

Notes

1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 680 [AotW citation 28768]

2 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 1900, Ser. No. 22, pg. 703 [AotW citation 28769]

3 Duncan, Louis C., and Captain, Medical Corps, US Army, The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War: unpublished collection, c. 1916, pp. 11, 45 [AotW citation 28770]

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