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Federal (USV)

Private

John Hughes

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

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

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Antietam (Smoketown) field hospital and discharged there for disability on 15 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. His Antietam wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as John Hughs.

Birth

c. 1839

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. 982 [AotW citation 30175]

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