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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Eugene McGrath, Jr.

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 5th New York Heavy Artillery, Company F

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enrolled 1 August 1862 in New York City, and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant, Company F, 5th New York Heavy Artillery the same day.

On the Campaign

He was captured at Harpers Ferry on 15 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was commissioned First Lieutenant 22 January 1864 to rank from 27 November 1863, but was dismissed from the service on 7 May 1865.

References & notes

Basic service from the Adjutant General.1

Birth

c. 1838

Notes

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 1906, Vol. 4, pg. 403  [AotW citation 22408]