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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Burns

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company E, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 1 July 1863.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1.

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. 149  [AotW citation 17009]