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Federal (USV)

Private

McCoy Sargent

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18 or 19, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 September 1861 at Lykens, PA or Pottsville, PA.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862:

The enemy sent solid shot, one of which struck two of my boys, taking two hands and leg of Frank Treon, and leg of McCoy Sargent.

He probably died later the same day.

References & notes

His service from Bates1 and the Card File,2 as McCoy Sarger and McCoy Sargert; both have him killed outright at Antietam. He's listed as McCoy Sargut on the Lykens, PA Civil War Soldiers' Monument. His wounding and death details here quoted from Captain Haas' wartime diary, extracted and interpreted by Haas' grandson James, online [PDF] from the US Army Heritage and Education Center.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11908]

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 30907]

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