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(c. 1839 - 1880)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20, he enlisted on 17 June 1861 in Boston, MA, and mustered in as a Corporal in Company H, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 in New York City.
After the War
By 1870 he was a shoe maker in Woburn, Middlesex County, MA. He was making shoes in a factory in Stoneham, MA in 1880.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as B.J. Dolan. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 and 1880, and the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890).
He married Rosanna Foley (1842-1895) in Lowell, MA in May 1859 and they had 9 children; she was still living in Stoneham, Middlesex County, MA in 1890.
Birth
c. 1839; Dublin, IRELAND
Death
09/12/1880; Stoneham, MA
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. 942 [AotW citation 30202]