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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 22, he enlisted at New York City to serve three years and mustered in as Private, Company E, 42nd New York Infantry on 3 December1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot through his right thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Satterlee Army Hospital in Philadelphia on 26 September 1862. His wound healed, but he suffered constant pain from nerve damage in his thigh. He was discharged for disability on 28 February 1863 at Philadelphia.
After the War
He was still suffering from thigh pain and partial paralysis as noted by doctors who examined him in Rock Hill, SC in May 1874.
Birth
c. 1839
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, Issue 23 (for the year 1900), pg. 926 [AotW citation 21359]
2 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, Volume 2, Part 3, pg. 10 [AotW citation 21360]