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(c. 1833 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 28, he enlisted in New York City as a Private in Company B, First US Sharpshooters on 14 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in a skirmish at Boteler's Ford on the Potomac River near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for wounds from Douglas Hospital in Washington, DC on 23 February 1863.
References & notes
His service from Stevens1 and a Muster Roll extract from the NY State Archives, online via fold3, which also has him as Stoakes.
Birth
c. 1833
1 Stevens, Charles Augustus, Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, St. Paul (MN): The Price-McGill Company, 1892, pp. 210, 270 [AotW citation 26151]