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(c. 1826 - 1864)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 35, he enlisted on 20 June 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 7 July.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a hospital in Chambersburg, PA. He was captured at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864 and died while a prisoner at Andersonville, GA on 1 November 1864.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.
Birth
c. 1826
Death
11/01/1864; Andersonville, GA
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. 923 [AotW citation 30189]
2 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. 169 [AotW citation 30190]