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Federal (USA)

Private

Peter Hickey

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old laborer, he enlisted in New York City in Company D, 2nd United States Infantry on 26 December 1854. He reenlisted on 26 October 1859 at Fort Laramie in the Northwest Territory.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1833; County Waterford, IRELAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 50, p. 100 [AotW citation 30470]

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