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(c. 1833 - 1874)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
A 28 year old painter, he enrolled 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company K, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June. He transferred to Company I the same day. He was promoted to Captain of Company K on 1 December, but was dismissed on 23 April 1862. He was reinstated (his dismissal revoked) on 16 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel on 27 March 1863 and was wounded again, at Cold Harbor, VA on 3 June 1864. He was commissioned Colonel 13 November 1863, but did not muster at that rank, and was mustered out on 13 July 1864.
After the War
He was a saloon keeper in New York City.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 His Antietam wound from a list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862. Personal details from his bio sketch from Green-Wood Cemetery.
Birth
c. 1833
Death
08/05/1874; New York City, NY; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
1 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. 23, p. 1005 [AotW citation 30086]