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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James Owens

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted on 29 May 1861 on Long Island and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 March 1863 and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was discharged for disability, date not given.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. His wound from 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. 1050 [AotW citation 30171]

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