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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Samuel Barnett

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 20 May 1861 on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company C, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head 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 was absent due to wounds to at least August 1863 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1843

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, Issue 23 (for the year 1900) [AotW citation 8515]

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. 123 [AotW citation 30092]

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