(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21 years. Enlisted May 3, 1861 at New York City; mustered in as Corporal, Company H, May 4, 1861, to serve two years; promoted Sergeant, June 10, 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged April 17, 1863 at Philadelphia, PA.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1; also borne as Burns.
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), pp. 630 - 645 [AotW citation 12657]