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G. Van Ingen
(c. 1831 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 89th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Before the war he worked for the New York Rural Reporter. At age 30 he enrolled at Elmira to serve three years and mustered in as Sergeant-Major of the 89th New York Infantry on 5 December 1861. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company F on 21 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was acting regimental Adjutant when he was mortally wounded by a gunshot that broke his thigh bone in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated on 17 (or 19) September, but he died on 22 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 has his death on 26 September. Medical details from the MSHWR,2 Nelson,3 and a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His name often seen in military records as Garret or Garrett Van Ingen. His picture from a family presentation [pdf] compiled by Peggy Weston Byrd (2010).
Birth
c. 1831
Death
09/22/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, 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. 324 - [AotW citation 12492]
2 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 3, pg. 266 [AotW citation 21354]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 422 [AotW citation 21355]