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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Delaney

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old miner, he enlisted and mustered in Pottsville on 1 October 1861 as a Private in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot(s) to both legs, 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, transferred to Camp A, and sent back to his company on 27 January 1863. He reenlisted on 1 January 1864 at Brandy Station, VA and was wounded again, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 19 May 1864. He was listed as a deserter on 30 July 1864 and was (adminstratively) transferred to the 95th Pennsylvania Infantry on 22 September 1864.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1839 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31100]

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 31101]

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 #120 [AotW citation 31102]

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