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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Daniel C. Cummings

(c. 1821 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 40, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Corporal in Company D, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He was promoted to Commissary Sergeant then returned to Company D as a Private, dates not given. He was again promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital (GH) #5 in Frederick, MD on 18 September, transferred to GH #1 there on 20 September, and sent on to Baltimore on the 23rd. He was discharged for disability at Fort Schuyler, NY on 28 February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1821

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. 931 [AotW citation 30229]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1, 2.987 [AotW citation 30230]

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