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Federal (USV)

Private

John Quinn

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted on 6 May 1861 at Great Neck, NY, and mustered in as a Corporal in Company B, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He was reduced to Private, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated in a US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD and Philadelphia, PA, but was listed as a deserter from the hospital in September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding. 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.

Birth

c. 1831

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. 1055 [AotW citation 30144]

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. 356 [AotW citation 30145]

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