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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John M. Tully

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20, he enlisted on 24 June 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg and was discharged for disability at Philadelphia, PA on 4 February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1841

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. 1089 [AotW citation 30172]

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. 417 [AotW citation 30173]

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