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Federal (USV)

Private

Bernard Dougherty

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted on 29 June 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company A, 42nd New York Infantry on 1 July.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a hospital at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, PA and transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in November or December 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Bernard Docherty. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 as Barney Dougherty. His wounding at Antietam also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as B. Doherty.

Birth

c. 1830

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. 941 [AotW citation 30134]

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. 192 [AotW citation 30135]

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