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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Lahy

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 27 May 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Corporal in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June. He was promoted to Sergeant on 29 June 1861 but reduced to Private on 1 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was again promoted to Sergeant, on 1 January 1864, and mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 in New York City.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam, also as Leahy. Wound detail from Nelson.2 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Michael Leahey.

Birth

c. 1840

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 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 997 [AotW citation 30178]

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, p. 281 [AotW citation 30179]

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