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Federal (USV)

Private

James Byron

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 15 June 1861 in New York City, and mustered in as a Private in Company H, 42nd New York Infantry on 17 July.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal, date not given, and was captured at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864. He was a prisoner in Richmond, VA by 25 June, then at Lynchburg on 29 June 1864, with no later record.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1841

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. 911 [AotW citation 30204]

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