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Federal (USV)

Private

James Hasson

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company B, 69th New York Infantry on 15 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the body, through both hips, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the New Church Hospital in Frederick, MD on 1 October and transferred to the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, VA on 26 November 1862. He reenlisted on 21 December 1863 and was promoted to Corporal that month. He failed to return from furlough in New York City and was listed as a deserter on 5 February 1864.

References & notes

Service from the New York Adjutant General,1 who also has him as James Hassan and James Hassen. His Antietam wound from McLernon,2 citing an official published casualty list, with details from the Frederick Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1831

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. 146 [AotW citation 18259]

2 McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 69th New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Bloody Lane, Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2014, pg. 35 [AotW citation 18260]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #203 [AotW citation 18261]

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