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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael J. Lenighan

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enlisted in New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company A, 69th New York Infantry on 25 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at hospitals in Frederick, MD and Philadelphia, PA. He transferred to Company B on 12 June 1863, and was absent, sick in hospital at the muster out of his Company (1864?).

References & notes

Service information from the Roster,1 which also has his last name as Lanahan, Lanigan, Lenahan, Lenehan, Lenehen, Lenihan, Lennehan, Lennehen, and Lennon. Hospital detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1827

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. 193 [AotW citation 18134]

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. 287 [AotW citation 18135]

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