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(1839 - 1864)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an unmarried farm worker on the Bancroft place at Berkshire, Tioga County, NY. He gave his residence as Union in Broome County when he enlisted on 4 September 1861 in New York City for three years, and he mustered as a Private in Company G, 61st NY Infantry on 17 October.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the right hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His index finger was amputated, but he returned to duty by April 1863. He was killed in the Wilderness, VA on 8 May 1864 and buried on the field.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 with details from his Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3. The pointer to his wound at Antietam was a casualty list in an undated news clipping online from the NY State Military Museum, as William H. Miller. Antietam wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial cenotaph in Riverside Cemetery, Endicott, NY is on Findagrave.
Birth
05/29/1839; Tioga County, NY
Death
05/08/1864; the Wilderness, VA; burial in the Wilderness, VA
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. 1001 [AotW citation 30947]
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. 323 [AotW citation 30948]