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(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 69th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 23 years, he enrolled at New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company H, 69th New York Infantry on 8 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by gunshot in the right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds 1 December 1862 at a hospital in Frederick, MD. He was probably originally buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, later reinterred at the National Cemetery.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839
Death
12/01/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 140 [AotW citation 16611]
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, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 28, pg. 25 [AotW citation 17971]