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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Walsh

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company H, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1861, and transferred to Company C, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, on 13 December 1862 at Fredericksburg, VA, with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam; his wounding there from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Patrick Welsh.

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. 1093 [AotW citation 30151]

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