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Federal (USV)

Private

Philip Sullivan

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old printer living in Boston with his parents and 2 siblings. He enlisted there on 1 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 3 July.

On the Campaign

He was listed as missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was declared a deserter from the camp at Harpers Ferry, VA on 14 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843 in IRELAND

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. 288 [AotW citation 29986]

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 29987]

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