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Federal (USV)

Private

Florence McCarthy

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From East Windsor. He enlisted on 12 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to the 41st Company, First Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863 and was discharged on 26 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record 1 with wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as Florance McCarty.

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 335 [AotW citation 30693]

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