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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard Hennessy

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, a laborer, he enlisted and mustered in Albany on 23 April 1861 as a Private in Company B, 18th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1842 in IRELAND

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

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 1899, Ser. No. 19, p. 1007 [AotW citation 31286]

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