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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Patrick Blaney

(c. 1821 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 88th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1850 he was a 29 year old laborer living with shoemaker Thomas Carr and family in Manayunk near Philadelphia, PA. Still living in Manayunk, by then married, and giving his age as 31 (he was about 40), he enlisted and mustered in Philadelphia on 24 August 1861 as a Private in Company C, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot through his left shoulder joint in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital then taken to the Race Street Hospital in Philadelphia on 27 September. He began to bleed heavily on the 30th, which could only partly be controlled, and he died on 8 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1821 in IRELAND

Death

10/08/1862; Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11810]

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 32132]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 511 [AotW citation 32133]

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