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J.W. Young
(c. 1837 - ?)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 76th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enrolled in Springfield at age 24 in Company K, 76th New York Infantry on 28 September 1861 and mustered as Captain on 14 October.
On the Campaign
He took over command of the 76th New York Infantry on September 14th when Colonel Wainwright moved up to command the Brigade.
Captain Young and the Brigade were held in reserve north of the Poffenberger farm to protect Hooker's First Corps artillery at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and promoted to Major to rank from 30 September 1863. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864 and paroled, date not given. He was discharged on 12 March 1865.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General.1 The photo above is from one provided by Jeff Kowalis to accompany a biographical sketch on the 76th NYSV website [gone now].
Birth
c. 1837; Springfield, NY
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. 29, pg. 421 [AotW citation 25280]