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Home State: Unknown
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted, date unknown in Company K, 2nd United States Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder, his clavicle fractured, probably in action near the Middle Bridge 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 1862 to 2 January 1863, and returned to his Company on 1 May 1863.
References & notes
His wound and hospital information from the Patient List.1 His is probably one or more of the three Patrick Enright enlistments in the 2nd Infantry found in the Register,2 with enrollment dates of 1848 (deserted '49, returned '50), 1856 (disch 1860), and 1860 (disch '65, re-enlisted), birthplace either County Limerick or County Kerry, born c. 1830-35 or 1839.
Birth
Date not known in IRELAND
1 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 #505 [AotW citation 26421]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 48, pg. 74; V. 51, p. 56; V. 141, p. 224 [AotW citation 26422]