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Federal (USV)

Private

Dennis Maher

(c. 1832 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, he enlisted on 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 22 September and sent on to Baltimore on 31 October 1862. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 1 December 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as D. Mahr. His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1832

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. 1006 [AotW citation 30195]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #87 [AotW citation 30196]

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