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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Lynch

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at Rochester, NY at age 25, and mustered in as Private, Company E, 108th New York Infantry on 28 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Smokeetown Hospital, near Sharpsburg, on 18 October 1862.

References & notes

Death and burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service data from the State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

10/18/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3824]

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, Issue 34 (for the year 1903), pg. 253 [AotW citation 8870]

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