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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Patrick

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 22 October 1861 in New York City for three years, and he mustered as a Private in Company H, 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 from wounds in March 1863 at Baltimore, MD.

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.

Birth

c. 1843

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. 1023  [AotW citation 30957]