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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21 years. Enlisted April 23, 1861 at New York City; mustered in as Private, Company C, May 4, 1861, to serve two years. He was promoted Corporal September 1, 1861.
On the Campaign
In his after-action report, Colonel Kimball said "I cannot close this report without calling your special attention to ... Sergeants Geayer, Stiles, Corporals Fields and Stephens (all wounded), Company C ..."
The rest of the War
Promoted to Sergeant on October 31, 1862 and mustered out with his company May 20, 1863.
References & notes
Service data from State of New York1.
Birth
c. 1840
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. 666 [AotW citation 12633]