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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry H. Kinsky

(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 clerk living with his mother Mary, as Bavarian-born washerwoman, and 6 siblings in Buffalo, NY. He enlisted there on 15 October 1861 to serve two years, and mustered in the same day as a Private in Company G, 21st New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 18 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 and his New York Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3, with Antietam wound detail from the Chronicles.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844; Buffalo, NY

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. 241 [AotW citation 28222]

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. 294 [AotW citation 28223]

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