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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Ryan

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted on 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company K, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June, and transferred to Company I, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 18 September and transferred out, place not given, on 28 September 1862. He mustered out in New York City with his Company as a Drummer on 13 July 1864.

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 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1831

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. 1067  [AotW citation 30208]

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 #4.022  [AotW citation 30244]