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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Timothy D. Donovan

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old blacksmith living in Boston with his parents and older brother. On 18 April 1861 he enlisted in Boston and he mustered as a Private in Company A, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 21 May. He was promoted to Corporal on 7 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot through his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield but died of wounds there on 26 October 1862.

References & notes

Service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/1841; Boston, MA

Death

10/26/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 279 [AotW citation 20138]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 192 [AotW citation 20139]

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