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(c. 1838 - 1921)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 23, he enlisted and mustered in Philadelphia on 1 May 1861 for 3 months as a Private in Company C, 24th Pennsylvania Infantry. He again enlisted in Philadelphia on 21 August 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company C, 69th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Observation, MD on 31 October. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his forearm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 6 October and was discharged for wounds at Falmouth, VA on 22 February 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was an (a---?) booth maker in Philadelphia, PA. He was a peddler in Philadelphia by 1899. He was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (Southern Branch) at Hampton, VA on 1 January 1900 and was there to 22 May 1903. He was admitted to the Pacific Branch of the Home in Sawtelle, CA on 8 July 1909 and died there of bronchial pneumonia on 16 March 1921 at about age 83.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as John O. Leary (with the 69th). Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as being in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. Personal details from the US Census of 1870 and the Registers.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Kate (?, c. 1844-) and they had 2 children by 1870.
Birth
c. 1838; County Cork, IRELAND
Death
03/16/1921; Los Angeles, CA; burial in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11653]
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 31036]
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 #549 [AotW citation 31037]
4 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, Vol. 9000, p. 9535 [AotW citation 31038]