[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

James Quinn

(c. 1823 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 38, he enlisted in New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company A, 69th New York Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Frederick, MD. He transferred to Company B on 12 June 1863, and was absent, sick in hospital, at the muster-out of his Company.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1823

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. 289 [AotW citation 18188]

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. 356 [AotW citation 18189]

« Search for another Person