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(1834 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 89th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
A 27 year old farmer on his father's place in Unadilla, Otsego County, he enlisted there to serve three years and mustered in as Private, Company F, 89th New York Infantry on 22 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 26 September but died there on 4 November 1862.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which says he died on 25 November 1862. Wound, hospital, and death details from the Patient List2 and the Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, compiled 1861-1865 at the National Archives. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
09/16/1834; Unadilla, NY
Death
11/04/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Unadilla Center Cemetery, Unadilla, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, for the Year 1901 (Issue 31), pp. 174 - 189 [AotW citation 12424]
2 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 #497 [AotW citation 25990]