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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Toomey

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company H, 51st New York Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was probably wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD on 19 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 and the Muster Roll abstract, online from fold3. He's on a casualty list in the New York Herald of 23 September 1862, as having been killed.

Birth

c. 1840; Astoria, NY