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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted on 17 June 1861 in Boston, MA, mustered in as a Private in Company C, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June, and transferred to Company H on 28 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864. He was a prisoner in Richmond then at Lynchburg, VA by 20 June. He was paroled near Petersburg on 28 April 1865, but there is no later record.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding, also as Bernard Minturn. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Bernard Morton.
Birth
c. 1842
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. 1032 [AotW citation 30205]