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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James Fee

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted in New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company B, 69th New York Infantry on 28 September 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 28 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Frederick, MD, then discharged for disability at Camp Convalescent VA on 4 April 1863.

References & notes

Service information from the Roster.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1840

Notes

1   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 1901, Ser. No. 28, pg. 110  [AotW citation 18102]

2   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. 206  [AotW citation 18103]