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Federal (USV)

Private

Daniel Shea

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker on the Ephraim Browning place at Plainfield, Windham County, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 14 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right hip or thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #45 in Frederick, MD on 1 October, transferred to GH #6 in Frederick on 15 January 1863, and was discharged there for disability on 17 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report, as David Shea, and the Patient List,2 as Daniel Shay. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1838 in IRELAND

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. 338 [AotW citation 30706]

2 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 #579, 483 [AotW citation 30709]

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