[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Philip Brennan

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old laborer, he enlisted in Company K, 2nd United States Infantry on 18 April 1861 in New York City for 3 years.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD then at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 3 October to 15 January 1863. He was discharged at the expiration of his service on 17 April 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 Casualty and hospitals details from the Patient List2 and Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1839; County Westmeath, IRELAND

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 141, pg. 48 [AotW citation 26375]

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 #760 [AotW citation 26376]

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. 142 [AotW citation 26379]

« Search for another Person