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Federal (USV)

Private

Daniel Sheehan

(c. 1824 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 37, he enlisted in New York City on 17 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C , 51st New York Infantry on 19 September. He transferred to Company K on 1 January 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General,1 Daniel Sheahan. His death also on a casualty list in the New York Herald of 23 September 1862. Personal details from the 1867 pension application of his 3 minor children, online from fold3.

He married Margaret Geary in July 1848 and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1824

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

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. 25, p. 199 [AotW citation 30295]

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