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(c. 1839 - 1864)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 22, he enlisted on 3 October 1861 in New York City for three years, and he mustered as a Sergeant in Company H, 61st NY Infantry on 5 October.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 22 September and sent on to Washington, DC on 27 September. He was appointed First Sergeant of his company on 10 October 1862 and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company F on 30 March 1863. He was promoted to Captain on 26 January 1864 (to date from 8 May 1863) but was killed at Corbin's Bridge, VA on 8 May 1864.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 with details from his Muster Roll Extracts, 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. Antietam wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the Patient List.3
Birth
c. 1839
Death
05/08/1864; Spotsylvania County, 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. 880 [AotW citation 30949]
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. 168 [AotW citation 30950]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #264 [AotW citation 30951]