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Federal (USV)

Private

John Smithwick

(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, and mustered in as a Private 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 captured at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864, paroled, date not given, and discharged on 30 January 1865.

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 John Smythick.

Birth

c. 1842

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. 1077 [AotW citation 30207]

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