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Federal (USV)

Private

John H. McKay

(1829 - 1891)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Danbury, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #6 in Frederick, MD on 20 December. He was discharged there for disability on 5 February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report, the Patient List,2 and Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/30/1829 in IRELAND

Death

10/19/1891; Danbury, CT; burial in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, CT

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. 354 [AotW citation 30799]

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 #443 [AotW citation 30800]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 313 [AotW citation 30801]

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