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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 on 10 August 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Private in Company B, 51st New York Infantry on 18 October.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General.1 Further details from research in his widow Bridget's pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; Bridget received her US pension in Ireland beginning in March 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Patrick married Bridget O'Brien in Dundalk, County Louth in April 1841.
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
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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. 181 [AotW citation 22472]