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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael J. Coan

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old clerk, he enlisted on 13 September 1861 in Buffalo and mustered as Private, Company D, 21st New York Infantry the same day.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 and his New York Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1837 in OH

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 197  [AotW citation 22645]