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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Maher

(c. 1831 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 2 July 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD and at Philadelphia, PA. He transferred to Company G, 82nd New York Infantry on 28 July 1864 with no further military record.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 as Michael O. Meagher. His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Michael Marrow.

Birth

c. 1831

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. 1007; 1901, Ser. No. 30; etc [AotW citation 30197]

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. 318 [AotW citation 30198]

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