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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Guiney

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old carder in a woolen mill in Stafford, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 25 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and transferred out to Philadelphia, PA on the 30th. He was discharged for disability on 7 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His age and occupation at enlistment from Gordon.2 Wound and hospital detail from the Patient List,3 as P. Grinney.

Birth

c. 1844

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 636 [AotW citation 27307]

2 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27308]

3 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 #649 [AotW citation 27349]

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