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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles McNulty

(c. 1840 - 1870)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Third of the nine children of Irish-born parents Eliza Flinn and Hugh McNulty, in 1860 he was a 20 year old laborer in Roxbury, MA. On 19 April 1861, giving his occupation as chain bearer (surveyor's assistant), he enlisted in Boston, and he mustered in as a Private in what became Company B, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 14 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshots through both thighs in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield where Surgeon B.A. Vanderkeift amputated his right leg. He was discharged for wounds on 23 March 1863.

After the War

He died young and unmarried, age 30, of influenza and [illegible] of stomach in Boston on 6 November 1870.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from Nelson3 and the MSHWR.4 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his death record.

Birth

c. 1840; Roxbury, MA

Death

11/06/1870; Boston, MA; burial in Brookline, MA

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. 287 [AotW citation 29899]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29900]

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. 317 [AotW citation 29901]

4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 3, p. 218 [AotW citation 29902]

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