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(1837 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 89th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1855 he was an 18 year old laborer living with his mother Polly, step-father Daniel Brown, a farmer, and sister Genet/Jennet at Lyndon in Cattaraugus County, NY. He enlisted on 14 October 1861 at Belvidere, to serve three years and mustered as a Musician in Company A, 89thh New York Infantry on 21 October. He was promoted Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the New York State Census of 1855. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his death on 23 September 1862.
He married Ethel "Ethie" Abbott (1834-1878) in September 1860 and they had a son, Hiram (1862-1907).
Birth
03/08/1837; Chemung County, NY
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Abbott Cemetery, Belvidere, 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. 264 - 293 [AotW citation 12475]