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E. Beese
(c. 1842 - 1926)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted New York City on 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, Ninth New York Infantry on 4 May.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in Frederick, MD on 1 October and was discharged there for disability on 11 October 1862. He enlisted again, on 5 August 1863 in the 178th New York Infantry, but deserted the same day. He enlsited for the third time as a Private in Company I, 12th New York Cavalry and mustered on 2 September 1863. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and to Sergeant Major of the Regiment on 27 February 1865. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company C on 12 April 1865, and mustered out with his Company on 19 July 1865 at Raleigh, NC.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 Phisterer,2 and the NY Muster Roll Abstracts, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in zouave uniform in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
Birth
c. 1842; Hamburg, GERMANY
Death
12/27/1926; burial in Weehawken Cemetery, North Bergen, NJ
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), pp. 616 - 629 [AotW citation 12647]
2 Phisterer, Frederick, New York in the War of the Rebellion, 6 volumes, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909-12, Vol. 2, pp. 964 - 965 [AotW citation 14224]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #332 [AotW citation 30557]