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Federal (USV)

Private

Owen McConnell

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 28, he enlisted on 31 August 1862 in Norristown and mustered on 20 September as a Private in Company D, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 20 September in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm, probably in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 17 September and sent on to Baltimore 2 days later. He was discharged in 1863, place not given.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Card File,2 neither of which mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 which has him in the 51st New York Infantry.

Birth

c. 1834

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 30353]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30354]

3 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 #57 [AotW citation 30355]

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