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(c. 1821 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 51st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 40, he enlisted in New York City on 14 August 1861 to serve 3 years and mustered as a Private in Company C, 51st New York Infantry on 9 September.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to the pelvis/groin in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital near the battlefield then admitted to the US Army "Camp A" hospital in Frederick, MD on 3 October. By December he was well enough to walk but took a bad fall on the 14th, after which his health failed. He died of his wounds on 24 December 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from the Adjutant General.1 Medical details from the MSHWR 2 and the Patient List.3 Personal information from research in his widow Mary Ann's pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels. His gravesite is on Findagrave; the original burial record mis-identified his unit as the 57th New York. Thanks to the Pry House Museum for the initial pointer to Delaney.
He married Mary Anne Quigley in Maryborough Catholic Church, County Laois on 1 May 1846 and they had 3 children.
His widow Mary Anne began receiving a US pension in Portlaoise (Maryborough), County Laois, Ireland in 1866.
More on the Web
Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.
Birth
c. 1821 in IRELAND
Death
12/24/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905, For the year 1900, Ser. No. 25, pg. 56 [AotW citation 21832]
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, 1870-1883, Part II, Vol II, pg. 225 [AotW citation 21833]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #102 [AotW citation 21834]