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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 89th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted on 13 September 1861 at Windsor, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company G, 89th New York Infnatry on 16 October.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot that broke his thigh bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds on 20 September 1862, probably at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which also lists him as Gerdivant, Grodisont, Groidirout and Groodivout. Wound detail from a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry.
Birth
c. 1842
Death
09/20/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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. 230 - [AotW citation 12454]