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Federal (USV)

Private

Dudley Byrne

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 88th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted at Newport News, VA for serve three years, and mustered as a Private in Company A, 88th New York Infantry on 23 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right eye in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 2 January 1863 from a hospital in Philadelphia, PA with "great deformity, and the sense of smelling was gone. Neuralgic trouble also existed."

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2

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 [AotW citation 10778]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 332 [AotW citation 31364]

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