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Federal (USV)

Private

John Lane

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted in New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company G, 69th New York Infantry on 18 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company A on 12 June 1863 and was promoted to Corporal. He was listed as a deserter not quite one week later on 17 June.

References & notes

Service information from the Roster.1

Birth

c. 1838

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. 187  [AotW citation 18131]