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Federal (USV)

Private

John Leahan

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 15 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company A, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 24 September and transferred on to Baltimore on 14 April 1863. He was discharged for disability at Harewood Hospital in Washington, DC on 14 August 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding; also as John Leyhan. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as John Lehen. His wounding at Antietam also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as John Leahern.

Birth

c. 1840

Notes

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. 999 [AotW citation 30138]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.465 [AotW citation 30139]

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