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Federal (USV)

Private

John Dolan

(c. 1830 - 1872)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 63rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 32, he enlisted in New York City on 30 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 63rd New York Infantry on 19 September. He transferred to Company D on 1 November.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder, which also fractured his upper jaw, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

A surgeon removed the head and 2 inches of his humerus (upper arm bone) and he was discharged for disability from the field hospital at Smoketown, MD, near the battlefield on 20 December 1862.

After the War

In September 1867 a pension examiner noted his "arm atrophied, paralyzed, and almost useless."

References & notes

His service from McLernon 1 and the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.3

Birth

c. 1830

Death

03/08/1872

Notes

1 McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 63rd New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Antietam, Maryland; September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2001 [AotW citation 2345]

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, or the Year 1901, Ser. No. 27, p. 42 [AotW citation 33085]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 577 [AotW citation 33086]

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