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Federal (USV)

Private

John Heyes

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old laborer, he enlisted in Buffalo, NY on 20 November 1861 to serve two years, and mustered in the same day as a Private in Company A, 21st New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 18 May 1863 in Buffalo.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 with Antietam wound detail from the Chronicles.2 He's also seen as John Hays.

Birth

c. 1840 in GERMANY

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 20, pg. 230  [AotW citation 28142]

2   Mills, John Harrison, and 21st Regiment Veteran Association of Buffalo, Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers, Buffalo: 21st Reg't. Veteran Association of Buffalo, 1887, pg. 293  [AotW citation 28143]