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(c. 1832 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 29, he enlisted on 31 July 1861 in New York City and mustered the same day as a Private in Company H, 9th New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot that broke his thigh bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds and pyemia (septicemia) on 2 October 1862, probably at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD.
References & notes
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. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as J. F. Johnson.
Birth
c. 1832
Death
10/02/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, 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. 691 - 704 [AotW citation 12711]