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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Gress

(c. 1828 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 103rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enlisted in New York City for three years and mustered as Private in Company D, 103rd New York Infantry on 5 February 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was briefly treated at a hospital in Fredrick, MD then transferred 30 September, possibly to one in Philadelphia, PA. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, but was discharged for disability from wounds on 21 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the NY Adjutant General,1 who also has him as Daniel Daniesson. Hospital detail from the Patient List,2 which has him as a Corporal.

Birth

c. 1828

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 1902, Ser. No. 33, pg. 749 [AotW citation 19802]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #580 [AotW citation 19803]

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