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Federal (USV)

Private

William J. Walsh

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enlisted in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company K, 42nd New York Infantry on 12 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left hip and right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, his arm amputated. He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 25 September, and sent on to Philadelphia, PA the next day. He was discharged for disability there on 28 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson3 who says he died on 21 October 1862, place not given - source could not be verified. His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as W.J. Walsh.

Birth

c. 1836

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 30152]

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 #96 [AotW citation 30153]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 427 [AotW citation 30154]

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