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Federal (USV)

Private

Martin C. Mullen

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old blacksmith in South Boston, he enlisted 30 April and mustered as Private, Company A, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 21 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest and side 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 19 September and transferred to Baltimore the next day. He was listed as a deserter from Bellevue Hospital in New York City on 15 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as M.C. Muller, and Nelson,3 also as Muller or Multen.

Birth

c. 1841

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 281 [AotW citation 29887]

2 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 #188 [AotW citation 29888]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 330 [AotW citation 29889]

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