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Federal (USV)

Private

Christopher Smith

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old clerk, he enlisted on 25 September 1861 in Buffalo, NY for three years, and he mustered as a Sergeant in Company K, 61st NY Infantry on 9 November. He was wounded at Fair Oaks, VA on 1 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was bruised in the forehad by a bullet in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 17 October 1862 at Bolivar Heights near Harpers Ferry, VA. He enlisted there two days later as a Private in Battery A, 4th United States Artillery and was discharged at the expiration of his enlistment on 25 September 1864.

References & notes

His volunteer 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 detail from Nelson;2 the latter 2 sources have him as Christy Smith. His US Army service from the Registers.3

Birth

c. 1842; New York City, NY

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. 1060 [AotW citation 30960]

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. 391 [AotW citation 30961]

3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 806 [AotW citation 30962]

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