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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael McCormick

(c. 1825 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 36, he enlisted in Tremont, PA and mustered in Pottsville on 14 October 1861 as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his face, 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 A in Frederick, MD on 4 October and sent back to his regiment on 23 February 1863. He was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate on 18 April 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1825

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31054]

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 31055]

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 #318 [AotW citation 31056]

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