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Federal (USV)

Private

John Simpson

(1831 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company C.

The rest of the War

Promoted Corporal after Antietam. WIA at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. Discharged 8 May 1863. Moved to Grass Lake, MI, enlisted there in February 1865 in Company C, 11th Michigan Infantry. Discharged 16 September 1865.

After the War

Still in Michigan as of 1890.

References & notes

Basic information from Washburn1.

Birth

10/02/1831; Easton, NY

Notes

1   Washburn, George H., A Complete Military History and Record of the 108th Regiment N.Y. Vols., Rochester (NY): Press of E.R. Andrews, 1894, pp. 307 - 316  [AotW citation 8999]