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(c. 1841 - 1879)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Giving his age as 22, a farmer, he enlisted on 2 September 1861 in Hamilton, NY for three years and mustered as a Private in Company C, 61st NY Infantry on 6 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 at Harpers Ferry, VA to enlist as a Private in Battery A, 4th United States Artillery. He reenlisted on 4 February 1864 at Brandy Station, VA; later military record not found.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1875 he was a farmer in Smyrna, Chenango County, NY.
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. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and the New York State Census of 1875, which estimate his birth in 1842. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Louisa Parma Crumb (1847-1929) in January 1870 and they had 4 sons.
Birth
c. 1841; Madison County, NY
Death
07/17/1879; burial in Sherburne West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne, NY
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. 870 [AotW citation 30939]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 55, p. 234 [AotW citation 30940]