Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 63rd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He was in Company A.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from McLernon1. Age 29 at enlistment in August 1861. Captured in action on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, Virginia. He died of disease on 5 March 1864, at Anderson- ville, Ga. Dorence Atwater, A List of Prisoners Who Died at Andersonville, states that he died of pneumonia. He is buried in Andersonville National Cemetery, Grave Number 10.
1 McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 63rd New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Antietam, Maryland; September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2001 [AotW citation 2221]