Stephen H. Bogardus, Jr.

In 1860 he was a 22 year old saddle and harness maker in his father's business at Poughkeepsie, NY. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 in New York City and mustered as a Corporal in Company C of the 5th New York Infantry on 9 May. He was promoted to Sergeant on 19 October 1861 and discharged 16 December for promotion. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Company H, Purnell Legion on 30 November 1861.

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant and appointed Adjutant on 12 January 1863 (to date from 1 December 1862). Except for a brief leave in April-May 1864 he was with the Legion until he went to a hospital sick in August; he was still absent at muster-out on 24 October 1864. He enrolled again, on 17 January 1865 in Albany, and mustered as Captain of Company E, 192nd New York Infantry on 28 March 1865. He mustered out with his Company on 28 August 1865 at Cumberland, MD. He was honored by brevet to Major of Volunteers in March 1865 for his war service.

He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of the 4th United States Infantry on 4 May 1866 and mustered out of the Regular Army on 1 January 1871.

In the 1870 Census he was listed in his father's household in Poughkeepsie, but by 1880 he was a railroad clerk in Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory. He was later postmaster (c. 1897) and Santa Fe Railroad station agent and depot watchman at Wallace (later Thornton), NMT. In 1900 he was a notary public in Wallace.

His service from the NY Adjutant General,1 Wilmer,2 Heitman,3 Henry,4 and his Compiled Service Records,5 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, the Official Register of the United States (1897), and his obituary in the Albuquerque Citizen of 2 January 1907, which does not mention wife or child. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by the late Brian Pohanka.

He married Mary Ellen Haile (1849-1904) in December 1866 (?) and they had a son John Haile Bogardus (1879-after 1914); they do not appear to have still been married in 1880.

Joel Craig edited and self-published Dear Eagle: The Civil War Correspondence of Stephen H. Bogardus, Jr. to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle in 2002, his letter of 19 September is source of his wound detail above; there's a copy at the Dutchess County Historical Society in Poughkeepsie.

06/06/1838; New York, NY

01/01/1907; Thornton, NM; burial in Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, NM