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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Cole

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted in Middletown on 30 April 1861 and mustered on 17 May as a Private in Company H, 18th New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated on 16 September and he died of "exhaustion" from his wounds in a field hospital in Burkittsville, MD on 21 October 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Wound and death details from the MSHWR.2

Birth

c. 1843

Death

10/21/1862; Burkittsville, 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. 977 [AotW citation 31290]

2 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. 508 [AotW citation 31291]

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