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P. Riley
Home State: Rhode Island
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
From Knightsville (or Cranston), he enlisted as Private, Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery on 2 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 24 February 1863.
References & notes
His service dates from the Adjutant General's Annual Report.1 His picture from a photograph kindly provided by Robert Grandchamp from his collection.
1 State of Rhode Island, and Henri Crandall, Acting Adjutant General, Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers ... 1861 to 1865, in the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Rhode Island for 1865, Providence: Providence Press, 1866, pg. 784 [AotW citation 21932]