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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted on 29 August 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Private in Company A, 61st NY Infantry on 2 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged 18 October 1862 and enlisted as a Private in Battery A, 4th United States Artillery. He reenlisted on 11 September 1863, then in Battery H, and was listed as a deserter on 1 January 1865.
References & notes
Service information from State of New York1 and the Registers.2 His wound at Antietam from a casualty list in an undated news clipping online from the NY State Military Museum.
Birth
c. 1842
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. 996 [AotW citation 30937]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 140, p. 559 [AotW citation 30938]