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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Dailey

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 19 October 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Private in Company H, 61st NY Infantry on 23 October. He was transferred to Company E on 1 November.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.

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 also as Edward Dagly. His wound at Antietam from a casualty list in an undated news clipping online from the NY State Military Museum.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

07/02/1863; 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. 892 [AotW citation 30941]

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