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Federal (USV)

Private

James McConnell

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted to serve two years on 23 April 1861 at New York City and mustered in as Private, in Company A, 9th New York Infantry on 4 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded, his skull bruised by a buckshot, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Philadelphia, PA on 30 September 1862. He mustered out with his company on 20 May 1863 at the end of their term of enlistment.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 2 and the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1837

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. 706 - 717 [AotW citation 12724]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 97 [AotW citation 31175]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #636 [AotW citation 31176]

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