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Federal (USV)

Musician

Daniel Donovan

(c. 1846 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 15, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Musician in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1861, and transferred to Company C the next day.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 22 September, transferred to another hospital there on 28 September, and furloughed home on 28 March 1863. He was 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, also as Donevan. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 also as Daniel Danvian.

Birth

c. 1846

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. 943 [AotW citation 30222]

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 #2.989, 4.339 [AotW citation 30223]

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