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Federal (USV)

Private

Timothy Buckley

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old laborer from Canton, he enlisted in Company F, 20th Massachusetts Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the hospital at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, PA. He was wounded again, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, and discharged for wounds on 11 December 1863.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1, with service details from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, which lists him as missing at Antietam.

Birth

c. 1838

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. 147  [AotW citation 16954]