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Federal (USV)

Private

John H. Smith

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted on 18 June 1861 at Great Neck, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company B, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the back of his arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg. He was listed as a deserter on 25 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 who supplied his middle initial. His wounding at Antietam also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

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. 1076 [AotW citation 30146]

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. 392 [AotW citation 30147]

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