[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

John McCarty

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 25 year old stonecutter in Lawrence, he enlisted on 19 August 1861 in Company G, 19th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for wounds on 1 January 1863 at Washington, DC.

References & notes

Service information from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines 1 and the History.2

Birth

c. 1836

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 460 [AotW citation 17873]

2 Waitt, Ernest Linden (compiler), History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Salem (MA): The Salem Press Co., 1906, pg. 145 [AotW citation 17874]

« Search for another Person