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A.C. Bullent
(1836 - 1910)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 18th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America in about 1850, then about 14 years old. On 7 December 1861, then age 25, he enlisted and mustered in Albany as a Private in Company F, 18th New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated at the thigh on 15 September, probably in a field hospital in nearby Burkittsville, MD. He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 14 November and and was discharged for disability there on 19 (or 21) November 1862.
After the War
By 1870 he was a silver plater in New York City, but by 1875 had moved to Greenbush in Rensselaer County, NY, and was still in the same trade there to at least 1880. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was retired and living with his daughter Ella and her family.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and the New York State Census of 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the collection of the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, online from New York Heritage.
Birth
06/12/1836; Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, ENGLAND
Death
11/15/1910; in NY; burial in Greenbush Cemetery, East Greenbush, NY
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 1899, Ser. No. 19, p. 970 [AotW citation 31277]
2 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 #1.400 [AotW citation 31278]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 3, p. 227 [AotW citation 31279]