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(c. 1835 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 88th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
A 26 year old marble quarryman in West Rutland, VT, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years and mustered as a Private in Company C, 88th New York Infantry on 28 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His father Timothy began receiving a pension of US$8.00 a month, based on Jeremiah's service, in January 1868.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Details from research in his father Timothy's pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels.
More on the Web
See more about the support Jeremiah provided his father both before and after his death at Antietam, in a piece by Damian on Irish in the American Civil War.
Birth
c. 1835; County Tipperary, IRELAND
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 10796]