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Federal (USV)

Private

Eugene Bodaine

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old cordwainer (shoemaker) living with Louis Derivaux (?) and wife Frances in Philadelphia, PA. He enlisted and mustered there as a Private in Company D, 18th Pennsylvania Infantry on 25 April 1861 for 3 months service. He mustered out with his regiment on 7 August 1861, enlisted again almost immediately, and mustered as a Private in Company G, 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded, bruised in the chest by a shell, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter on 27 October 1862.

References & notes

Casualty basics from Nelson.1 His service from Bates,2 also as Eugene Bodine, and the Card File.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860, which has his birth in Paris. Thanks to Vincent Géhin for his birth information and for the push to look a little further into Eugene.

Birth

c. 1838; Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, FRANCE

Notes

1 Nelson cites his sources as Army Corps Hospital Register 95, Record Group 94, Entry 544, National Archives, Washington, DC and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 1862.
Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 135 [AotW citation 16471]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. 2, p. 853 [AotW citation 33165]

3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 33166]

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