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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 22, he enlisted on 16 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company H, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June, and transferred to Company F the same day.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm and the Smoketown hospital near Sharpsburg, then at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD. He mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 in New York City.
After the War
In 1890 he was living in Brooklyn, NY.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as A.J. Johnson. Personal details from the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890).
Birth
c. 1839
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. 984 [AotW citation 30176]
2 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. 263 [AotW citation 30177]