[no picture yet]
(c. 1844 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 21st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents in Buffalo, NY. He enlisted there on 1 May 1861 to serve two years, and mustered in on 20 May as a Private in Company A, 21st New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 27 September 1862 and sent on to Philadelphia on 9 November. He mustered out with his Company on 18 May 1863 in Buffalo.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1844 in NY
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. 286 [AotW citation 28148]
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 28149]
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 #4.626 [AotW citation 28154]