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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 57th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted in New York City on 31 August and was mustered as Corporal, Company A, 57th New York Infantry on 2 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was a member of the Color Company and carried a flag during the assault on the Sunken Road at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 January 1863 and was discharged 21 March 1863 to take a commission as 2nd Lieutenant, Fifth US Colored Troops (?).
References & notes
Basic information from State of New York.1 His role at Antietam from Capt. Gilbert Frederick's The Story of a Regiment (1895).
Birth
c. 1842
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 1900, Ser. No. 26, pg. 88 [AotW citation 21135]