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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John P. Nugent

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted on 17 June 1861 in Boston, MA, and mustered in as a Private in Company H, 42nd New York Infantry on 17 July. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and was discharged for disability on 18 June 1864 at Portsmouth Grove, RI.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Corporal P.J. Nugent.

Birth

c. 1842

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. 1044 [AotW citation 30203]

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