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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Richard Cook

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Corporal in Company D, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability in Philadelphia, PA on 22 April 1863, by then a Private.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound detail from Nelson.2 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

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, 1901, Ser. No. 30, p. 925 [AotW citation 30161]

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. 171 [AotW citation 30162]

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