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(c. 1832 - 1884)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
A 22 year old civil engineer, he enlisted in New York City on 28 February 1854 as a Private in Company A, United States Engineers (Company of Sappers and Miners). He was advanced to Corporal and Artificer by February 1859. He reenlisted in New York on 3 August 1859 as a Private in Battery D, 4th United States Artillery and was Sergeant when he was discharged on 3 December 1861 to accept the commission as 2nd Lieutenant, then First Lieutenant, Battery M, 3rd US Artillery (to date from 29 November). He was later brevetted Captain for his actions at Gaines Mill, VA in June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his battery at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was honored again by brevet to Major, USA for gallantry at Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862. He was with the Horse Artillery and commanded a section of Battery C, 3rd US Artillery at Gettysburg in July 1863, and the combined Batteries C, F, & K, 3rd US by June 1864.
After the War
He continued in the Army, stationed at posts in the West, at Fort Adams, RI (by 1868), and at Fortress Monroe, VA (by 1870). He was promoted to Captain on 20 December 1872, was at Sackets Harbor, NY in 1880, and was at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, LA at his death in 1884.
References & notes
His service from the Registers,1 with his birth in Harford County, MD, from Heitman,2 and from Henry;3 the latter have him as born in Ireland. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Eudora Sherman (1848-) in November 1868 in Newport, RI, and they had 5 children; she began receiving a widow's pension in 1885.
Birth
c. 1832 in IRELAND
Death
12/03/1884; New Orleans, LA; burial in Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, LA
1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 049, pg. 113; Vol. 142, pg. 405 [AotW citation 28878]
2 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. 590 [AotW citation 28879]
3 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 1, pp. 212-213 [AotW citation 28880]