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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Lyons

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 31 August 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Private in Company B, 61st NY Infantry on 18 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, bruised by a shell to the right side of his chest.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 23 March 1863 and transferred to Company K on 7 April, but was killed at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.

References & notes

Service information from State of New York.1 His wound at Antietam from a casualty list in an undated news clipping online from the NY State Military Museum. Wound detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1843

Death

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 26, p. 979 [AotW citation 30935]

2 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. 296 [AotW citation 30936]

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