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Federal (USA)

Private

Michael Walsh

(c. 1840 - 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 C, 2nd United States Infantry on 2 May 1861.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Register.1

Birth

c. 1840; County Tipperary, IRELAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 873  [AotW citation 30475]