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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Müller

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted on 5 July 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company H, 42nd New York Infantry on 17 July. He transferred to the band as a musician, date not given, then to Company I on 14 July 1862.

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 #1 in Frederick, MD and sent on to Baltimore on 23 September 1862. He was discharged for disability on 14 February 1863 at the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, VA.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his Antietam wound, also as Miller. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Henry Miller.

Birth

c. 1831

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. 1037 [AotW citation 30245]

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 #2.985 [AotW citation 30246]

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