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Federal (USV)

Private

James Conley

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 15 July 1861 in New York City, and mustered in as a Private in Company H, 42nd New York Infantry on 17 July.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out on 8 May 1865 at Hart's Island in New York Harbor.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as John Connolly and John Conley. He appears on a a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862 as John Connolly.

Birth

c. 1839

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, Issue 23 (for the year 1900)  [AotW citation 8526]