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Federal (USV)

Private

James Carr

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted on 10 May 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered as a Sergeant in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June. He was returned to the ranks (Private), date not given.

On the Campaign

He suffered a flesh wound in the left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman Farm Hospital at Sharpsburg, and was discharged for disability at the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, VA on 12 February 1863..

References & notes

Wound and hospital details from Nelson.1 His service from the State of New York.2

Birth

c. 1842

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. 155 [AotW citation 17134]

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. 23, p. 914 [AotW citation 30120]

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