Howard Carroll

After college in Ireland, he move to the United States. He was a civil engineer building bridges for the New York Central Railroad by 1859.1 He enrolled at Rochester to serve three years and mustered in as Lieutenant Colonel, 105th New York Infantry on 27 March 1862. He was commissioned (but not mustered) Colonel on 2 August 1862.

Just after dawn on 17 September "[t]he 105th and 104th New York, on reaching the south edge of the corn pushed out into the open field 160 and 120 yards respectively and were opened upon with such vigor by Lawton's right and the 12th Georgia, and S.D. Lee's guns, that they soon fell back to the corn, the former carrying with it, its mortally wounded commander, Lieutenant Colonel Howard Carroll".2

He died of wounds 29 September 1862 in Washington DC.

Service and death data from New York3. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his photograph, posted by Bill McKern, of unknown provenance.

1827; Dublin, IRELAND

09/29/1862; Washington, DC; burial in Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, NY