Michael Eagan

Giving his age as 29 (probably 34), he enlisted on 25 May 1861 at Natchez and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 17 June 1861 in Corinth.

He was wounded in his left thigh and captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 12 October and sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, the next day. He was paroled on 27 September, sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 14 October, and was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 23 October. He was furloughed for 30 days on 8 November and returned to duty with his Company by February 1863. He was captured near Fredericksburg, VA on 30 April and sent to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, where he took an oath of allegiance to the US on 24 June 1863. There is no later military record.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also seen on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1827 in IRELAND