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(1836 - 1902)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old worker on his parent's farm at East Berne, Albany County, NY. He enlisted on 1 October 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Private in Company F, 61st NY Infantry the next day.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 3 February 1863 at the convalescent camp at Alexandria, VA.
After the War
In 1865 he was back farming with his parents and 11 siblings in Berne, NY. By 1880 he was a farm worker living with his brother in law (?) Seneca Haverley, a sawyer at Blenheim, Schoharie County, NY.
References & notes
Service information from the 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. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1880, and the New York State Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
09/29/1836; Berne, NY
Death
12/21/1902; in NY; burial in Riverview Rural Cemetery, North Blenheim, 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. 1094 [AotW citation 30942]