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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Cornelius Gillen

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 19 August 1861 in Philadelphia and mustered into service as Sergeant, Company I, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry the same day.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near Sharpsburg, and his leg was amputated at the thigh, but he died there of his wounds on 28 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File;2 both list him as killed outright on 17 September. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave, with death date of 27 September and as Corneillius Gillen.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/28/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11613]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23284]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 223 [AotW citation 23283]

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