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Federal (USV)

Private

Daniel Mahoney

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company K, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left hand 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 22 Setpember. He was sent on to Philadelphia on 26 September 1862. He mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 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 Nelson2 and the Patient List,3 as D. Mahoney. His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Dennis Mahoney.

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. 1007 [AotW citation 30216]

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. 297 [AotW citation 30217]

3 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 #4.337 [AotW citation 30218]

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