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(c. 1837 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 69th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 24, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company G, 69th New York Infantry on 16 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 10 February 1863 at the Convalescent Camp, near Alexandria, VA.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1879 and by 1899 was living in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland.
References & notes
His service from the New York Adjutant General.1 His Antietam wound from McLernon,2 citing a casualty list (probably that in the New York Tribune of 30 September 1862). Further details from research in his pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; he received his US pension in Ireland. His widow Catherine was getting a pension, based on his service, by 1905.
More on the Web
Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.
Birth
c. 1837 in IRELAND
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. 41 [AotW citation 18296]
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 18297]