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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael King

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 1 July 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 7 July.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left heel 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, then admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 25 September. He was sent on to Philadelphia, PA the next day and was discharged for disability there on 13 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Michael Kine.

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. 994 [AotW citation 30192]

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 #86 [AotW citation 30193]

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. 275 [AotW citation 30194]

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