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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael O'Connell

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company B, 8th Ohio Infantry at age 19 on 31 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged 3 March 1863 on a Surgeon's Certificate of disability.

After the War

He was listed as living in Cleveland, OH at the time of the Regimental Reunion at Gettysburg in September 1887.

References & notes

Basic information from Sawyer1.

Birth

c. 1842

Notes

1   Sawyer, Franklin, and George A. Groot, editor, A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf'y, Cleveland: Fairbanks & Co., Printers, 1881, pp. 198 - 202  [AotW citation 14786]