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Federal (USV)

Private

William Donegan

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1861, 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 mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 in New York City.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam, also as William Dunnigan. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as William Dunnigan.

Birth

c. 1839

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. 942 [AotW citation 30156]

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