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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Joseph Schneider

(c. 1827 - 1864)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enlisted on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Corporal in Company I, 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 Baltimore on 23 September 1862.

He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 22 June 1864 and paroled on 20 November in Savannah, GA, but died on a steamship enroute to New York City on 23 November 1864.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his Antietam wound. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Joseph Snyder.

Birth

c. 1827

Death

11/23/1864;

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. 1069 [AotW citation 30242]

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 #2.986 [AotW citation 30243]

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