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Federal (USV)

Captain

John Henry Campbell

(1834 - 1902)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, he enrolled on 25 April 1861 at Lansingburgh, NY and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company A, 30th New York Infantry on 1 June 1861. He was promoted to Captain 30 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He led the regiment in assault into Miller's Cornfield at Antietam on 17 September 1862, after Colonel Searing refused to go.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 18 June 1863 in Albany, NY.

After the War

By 1865 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Brunswick in Rensselaer County, NY.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 His role at Antietam from Carman.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1900, and the NY Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Carr (1834-1924) in April 1858 and they had 2 sons.

Birth

06/25/1834; Raymertown, NY

Death

01/31/1902; burial in Hillside Cemetery, Pittstown, 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. 21, pg. 577 [AotW citation 29381]

2 Carman, Ezra Ayers, and Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, editor, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, 3 volumes, El Dorado Hills (CA): Savas Beatie, 2010-17, Vol. 2, pg. 522, n. 6 [AotW citation 29382]

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