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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Henratty

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted on 4 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company A, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg and discharged for disability at Philadelphia, PA on 3 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding; also as Michael Henrietta. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His wounding at Antietam also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Michael Henritty.

Birth

c. 1838

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. 978 [AotW citation 30136]

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. 244 [AotW citation 30137]

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