(c. 1841 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20 years. Enlisted April 23, 1861 at New York City and mustered in as Private, Company B, May 4, 1861, to serve two years.
On the Campaign
In his after-action report, Colonel Kimball said "I cannot close this report without calling your special attention to ... Sergeants Dews, Whitney (wounded), and Schmidt; Corporals Farrell (wounded) Cornell, and Roberts, Company B..."
The rest of the War
He mustered out with his company May 20, 1863.
References & notes
Service data from State of New York1.
Birth
c. 1841
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, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pg. 743 [AotW citation 12631]