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(c. 1829 - 1864)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 32, he enlisted on 3 June 1861 on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company E, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 27 September and sent on to Washington, DC on 9 November 1862. He reenlisted on 10 December 1863, was promoted to Sergeant, and was captured, place and date not given. While still a prisoner, he was transferred to Company E, 82nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1864. He was transferred again, to Company I, 59th New York on 10 July. He was captured at Ream's Station, VA on 25 August 1864 and died on Christmas Day, 1864 while a prisoner at Salisbury, NC.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam, also as Reddy and Reedy. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as M. Reedy. His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1829
Death
12/25/1864; Salisbury, NC; burial in Salisbury National Cemetery, Salisbury, NC
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 1900, Ser. 23, p. 1058; 1901, Ser. 30, p. 438; etc [AotW citation 30167]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.708 [AotW citation 30169]