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Federal (USV)

Private

Washington Taney

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 71st Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 1 July 1861 in Philadelphia, and mustered as a Private in Company M, 71st Pennsylvania Infantry in Washington, DC on 6 August 1861. He transferred to Company C on 29 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the "Old Church" hospital (US Army General Hospital #3) in Frederick, MD on 1 October, but died there of wounds on 31 October 1862.

References & notes

Basic service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson3 and the Patient List,4 listed in the 72nd Pennsylvania. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

10/31/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Saint Vincent United Church of Christ Cemetery, Spring City, Chester County, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11731]

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 31529]

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, p. 408 [AotW citation 31530]

4 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 #112 [AotW citation 31531]

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