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Federal (USV)

Private

John Boote

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 23 September 1861 in New York City and he mustered as a Private in Company B, 51st New York Infantry on 18 October.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 15 November 1863.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 His wounding is also on a casualty list in the New York Herald of 23 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1 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. 136 [AotW citation 16494]

2 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, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 25, p. 16 [AotW citation 30324]

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