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Federal (USV)

Private

Peter Ryne

(c. 1843 - 1914)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old plasterer in Bloomington, he mustered as Private, Company F, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 by a gunshot to the head. He left the hospital and returned to duty in February 1864. He mustered out on 12 October 1864 in Indianapolis.

References & notes

His service from Brown,1 which has him as Peter Ryan, and the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

03/02/1914; Benton Township, Berrian County, MI; burial in Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton Harbor, MI

Notes

1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 601 [AotW citation 18621]

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