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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 18, he enlisted on 27 August 1861 in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company G to serve two years the same day. He transferred to Company H on 26 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam which broke the head and neck of his humerus (upper arm) bone. The shattered parts of his humerus were removed on 18 September by Surgeon Humphreys of his regiment.
The rest of the War
He died of "violent gangrenous inflammation of the wound" on 27 September 1862 in field hospital near Sharpsburg, MD.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843
Death
09/27/1862; 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. 718 - 741 [AotW citation 12740]
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 2, p. 537 [AotW citation 32167]