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Federal (USV)

Private

Eugene Lynch

"Hugh"

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old boat hand living with his parents and younger sister in Pottsville, PA. He enlisted there for 3 months service and mustered in Harrisburg as a Private in Company H, 6th Pennsylvania Infantry on 22 April 1861. He mustered out with them on 27 July. He enlisted again on 20 September and mustered in Pottsville on 23 September 1861 as a Private in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg, probably in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October and sent on to Baltimore on 11 March 1863. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 1 July 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 also as Hugh Lynch. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Hugh Lynch. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31039]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31040]

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 #128 [AotW citation 31041]

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