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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Sullivan

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

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

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, and his leg was amputated in the middle of his thigh, but he died of his wound on 29 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who say he died of wounds in November or December 1862. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 He's on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as missing at Antietam.

Birth

c. 1834

Death

09/29/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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. 1084 [AotW citation 30187]

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. 406 [AotW citation 30188]

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