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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Gardner

(c. 1818 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 43, he enlisted on 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company K, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June, and transferred to Company E the same day.

On the Campaign

He was probably wounded in the shoulder and thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which has no information for him later than his muster-in. Wound details from Nelson,2 as Henry Varner.

Birth

c. 1818

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 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 963 [AotW citation 30113]

2 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. 423 [AotW citation 30114]

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