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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Henry Darrah

(1815 - 1864)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 106th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Corporal, Company K, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 7 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 29 December 1863 but died in Washington, DC of wounds on 14 July 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Ward,1 who says he died of his Sharpsburg wound, and Bates,2 who has him as Henry Darragh.

Birth

1815

Death

07/14/1864; Washington, DC

Notes

1   Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pp. 113, 369  [AotW citation 21614]

2   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. V, pg. 851  [AotW citation 21615]