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Federal (USV)

Private

Timothy Harrington

(c. 1821 - 1864)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 40, he enlisted on 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June, and transferred to Company C the next day.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of disease in Annapolis, MD on 2 May (or March) 1864.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam, also as Timothy Herrigan. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Tim Hanigan. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1821

Death

05/021864; Annapolis, MD; burial in Annapolis National Cemetery, Annapolis, MD

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. 974 [AotW citation 30155]

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