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Federal (USV)

Private

John E. Joyce

(c. 1832 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, he enlisted on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He transferred to Company K on 28 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm at Sharpsburg.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who say he deserted on 17 July 1861 with no later information. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1832

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. 896 [AotW citation 30238]

2 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. 267 [AotW citation 30237]

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