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(c. 1823 - 1899)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 88th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 38 years, he enlisted in New York City to serve three years, and mustered as a Private in Company D, 88 New York Infantry on 10 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 28 November 1862 at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD.
After the War
He returned to his native Ireland after the war and began receiving a US pension for disability in October 1890.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1. Details from research in his pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels.
More on the Web
Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.
Birth
c. 1823 in IRELAND
Death
08/06/1899; Drogheda, County Louth, IRELAND
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905 [AotW citation 10849]