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Federal (USV)

Private

John Smith

(c. 1828 - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 33, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, mustered in as a Private in Company D, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

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 US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD and sent on to Washington, DC on 22 September. He was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863.

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

Birth

c. 1828

Death

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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. 1076 [AotW citation 30233]

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 #3.434 [AotW citation 30234]

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