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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Quinn

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 111th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old farmer, he enlisted 15 October 1861 in Titusville, PA and mustered into service as Private, Company H, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot 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 to 22 September 1862, then sent on to Washington, DC. He returned to duty, date not given, and mustered out with his Company on 19 July 1865.

References & notes

Service from Bates.1. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as C. Quinn, 11th Pennsylvania. Further information from the Company H Descriptive Book in the US National Archives, transcribed and provided by Patrick Knierman.

Birth

c. 1838 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. III, pg. 1050 [AotW citation 10989]

2 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 #4.309 [AotW citation 21696]

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