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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Ward

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 28, he enlisted on 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June, and transferred to Company D the next day.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of typhoid fever on 17 November 1862 in Baltimore, MD.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention Antietam. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833

Death

11/17/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Loudon Park National Cemetery, Baltimore, MD

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. 1093 [AotW citation 30166]

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