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Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 88th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted at New York City to serve three years and mustered in as Private, Company I, 88th New York Infantry on 31 August 1862.
On the Campaign
Two weeks later he was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 19 September to 26 September, then sent on to a hospital in Philadelphia, PA. There is no further military record.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York,1 which says he was wounded with no further record after Antietam. Also borne as McCarthy. The Antietam Cemetery History 2 has a James McCarty, 28th NY Infantry who died at Frederick on 26 September, now buried in the National Cemetery. These may be the same man. There is no one of that name in the 28th NY. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3
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 10826]
2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3861]
3 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 #4.106 [AotW citation 22453]