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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted on 23 April 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company E, 9th New York Infantry on 4 May. He was wounded in action on 19 April 1862, probably at the Battle of Camden, NC.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot that broke his thigh bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville and died there of his wounds on 27 October 1862.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial near the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the State of New York.2 Hospital and wound details from Nelson3 and a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry.
Birth
c. 1842
Death
10/27/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 4244]
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 18 (for the year 1899), pg. 761 [AotW citation 12579]
3 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. 408 [AotW citation 30496]