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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry Allen

(1827 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 77th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enlisted on 27 September 1861 in Gloversville for three years and mustered as Sergeant, Company K, 77th New York Infantry on 4 October.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds on 16 October 1862 in a US Army hospital in Harrisburg, PA.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/1827; Gloversville, NY

Death

10/16/1862; Harrisburg, PA; burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gloversville, NY

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 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 425  [AotW citation 22504]