(c. 1840 - 1862)
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 B on May 1, 1861, to serve two years.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York1; also borne as Cortez, John A.
Birth
c. 1840
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 12664]