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Federal (USV)

Private

Lycurgus O'Sullivan

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 27 May 1861 on Long Island, and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 9 February 1864 at the Rendezvous of Distribution, Alexandria, VA.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding. His wound found on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as L.O. Sullivan.

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. 1049 [AotW citation 30186]

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