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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Thomas Duffy

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, he enlisted in Brooklyn to serve three years, and mustered in as Sergeant, Company F, 69th New York Infantry on 2 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at hospitals in Frederick, MD and Philadelphia, PA. He mustered out of service on 12 June 1863 near Falmouth, VA.

References & notes

Service information from the Roster.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1835

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, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 28, pg. 99  [AotW citation 18092]

2   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. 195  [AotW citation 18093]