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Federal (USV)

Private

James Cain

(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 in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability 10 February 1863 at the Convalescent Camp, near Alexandria, VA.

References & notes

Service from the New York Adjutant General.1 His Antietam wound from McLernon,2 citing an official published casualty list. He may have been buried as James Kane, Co. K, died 15 December 1895, in Togus National Cemetery, Togus, ME. There is no James Kane found in the State Roster for the 69th.

Birth

c. 1837

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. 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]

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