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Federal (USV)

Private

James S. Mahoney

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company B, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 January 1862 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal, date not given and transferred to Company D, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 November 1864. He was discharged on 11 January 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1844

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23546]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23547]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 297 [AotW citation 23548]

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