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Federal (USV)

Private

Dennis Daly

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, he enlisted in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company K, 42nd New York Infantry on 21 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded, losing the middle finger of his right hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a US Army hospital at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, PA and was discharged for disability there on 29 November 1862.

After the War

In 1890 he was in the Charity Hospital, Blackwell's (now Roosevelt) Island, in New York City.

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. Personal and further wound details from the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890).

Birth

c. 1835

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. 935 [AotW citation 30212]

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. 181 [AotW citation 30215]

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