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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert H. Joye

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A painter from Salem, he enlisted in Company C, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry at age 24 on 24 May 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Discharged for wounds on 21 November 1862.

After the War

He was a house painter living in Ward 6, Salem, MA at the 1870 US Census.

References & notes

Basic information from Quint1.

Birth

c. 1837; Salem, MA

Notes

1 Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, pp. 325 - 341 [AotW citation 14420]

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