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Federal (USV)

Private

Jeremiah Mahoney

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old waiter, he enlisted in Company I, 10th United States Infantry on 7 February 1859 in Chicago, IL for 5 years. He was sworn in by Lieutenant Dryer.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 27 September to 8 October 1862, then sent on to Baltimore. He was discharged there for disability on 18 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 Casualty and hospitals details from the Patient List.2.

Birth

c. 1838; County Cork, IRELAND

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, pg. 480 [AotW citation 26373]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #540 [AotW citation 26374]

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