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H.A. McGee
(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 G, 69th New York Infantry on 13 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He transferred to Company A on 12 June 1863 and was wounded for the third time, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July. He reenlisted on 22 December 1863, transferred to Company F in January or February 1864, and was captured in action at Ream's Station, VA on 25 August 1864 and paroled, date not given. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1865 and mustered out 21 June 1865 at the Ladies Home Hospital, New York City.
References & notes
His service from the Roster,1 which also has him as Henry Magee. Wound detail from Nelson.2 His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
Birth
c. 1840
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. 224 [AotW citation 18152]
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. 311 [AotW citation 18153]