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Federal (USV)

Private

Emile Joseph Coulman

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old file cutter in Brooklyn, NY and lived with his widowed mother Caroline. He enlisted on 22 August 1862 in New York City and mustered in as Private, Company G, 9th New York Infantry the next day.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and may have been wounded there.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company B, Third New York Infantry on 6 May 1863 and transferred again, in September 1863, to the Invalid Corps - later Company I, 15th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps.

After the War

In 1865 he was again making files and living with his mother in Brooklyn. By 1880 he was in Sacramento, CA.

References & notes

Basic information from the State of New York1 and the US Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors System. Whitney2 has him as wounded at Antietam. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and the New York State Census of 1865 (as Coleman).

He married Amelia Elizabeth Lane (1851-) in New York City in June 1868.

Birth

c. 1842 in NY

Notes

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 12665]

2 Whitney, J. H. E., The Hawkins Zouaves: Ninth N.Y.V., Their Battles and Marches, New York: J.H.E. Whitney, 1866, pg. 207 [AotW citation 27860]

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