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(c. 1841 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20, he enlisted on 3 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June, and transferred to Company K on 28 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left arm and left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, then at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD. He was sent on to Philadelphia, PA on He mustered out with his Company on 13 July 1864 in New York City.
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 and Nelson.3 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.
Birth
c. 1841
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. 956 [AotW citation 30211]
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 #2.932 [AotW citation 30213]
3 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. 209 [AotW citation 30214]