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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Samuel Ferguson

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 15 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company A, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on 25 October 1862 and to First Sergeant, date not given. He mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 in New York City.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 His status at Antietam from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1836

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. 955  [AotW citation 30140]