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Federal (USV)

Private

John Long

"Max"

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 19 September and sent on to Baltimore the next day. He was discharged for disability on 12 January 1863 at Carver Hospital in Washington, DC.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Max Long. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Max Long.

Birth

c. 1840

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. 1002 [AotW citation 30239]

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 #187 [AotW citation 30240]

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