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Federal (USV)

Private

John Carney

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A baker from Haverhill, he enlisted in Company B, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry at age 19 in May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

Discharged for disability 23 December 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Quint1.

Birth

c. 1842; County Cork, IRELAND

Notes

1   Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, pp. 301 - 320  [AotW citation 14412]