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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Meehan

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 23 April 1861 in New York City and mustered as Private, Company C, 4th New York Infantry on 2 May.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his the temple, the mastoid portion of his left temporal bone fractured, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital near the battlefield to 26 September, then sent to the Mt. Pleasant Hospital in Washington, DC. His scalp became infected and it spread to his brain membrane, and he died on 5 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the MSHWR,3 as Thomas M---. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

10/05/1862; Washington, DC; burial in US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC

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 1898, Ser. No. 17, pg. 721 [AotW citation 20390]

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. 319 [AotW citation 20391]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 165 [AotW citation 31241]

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