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Federal (USV)

Private

Andrew Taomey

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company E, 69th New York Infantry on 16 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability 16 February 1863 at the Convalescent Camp, near Alexandria, VA.

References & notes

Service from the New York Adjutant General,1 who also has him as Andrew Tomey and Toomey. His Antietam wound from McLernon,2 citing an official published casualty list, as Andrew Twomey.

Birth

c. 1840

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. 335 [AotW citation 18292]

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. 36 [AotW citation 18293]

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