Oliver Peter Forbes

He came to America with his parents and older siblings as an infant in January 1837 and in 1860 was 24 years old and lived with 7 siblings in New York City; 2 of his brothers were photographers, and he may have also been in that business. He enlisted there on 3 May 1861 and mustered in as a Private in Company A, 9th New York Infantry the next day. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given and to First Sergeant on 25 May 1862.

He was mortally wounded by a "grape shot" (canister ball) that broke his thigh bone in action on 17 September 1862.

He died of his wound on 31 May 1863, probably at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm at Keedysville, MD.

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound detail from a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His death place from a notice in the New York Times of 4 June 1863.

c. 1835; Clapham, Surrey, ENGLAND

05/31/1863; Keedysville, MD