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Federal (USV)

Private

Francis Noonan

(c. 1829 - 1863)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 32, he enlisted in Albany on 19 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 18th New York Infantry on 17 May.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the right leg in action Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated on 15 September. He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 2 January 1863, with an ulcerating leg, and transferred to GH #1 in Frederick on 28 February. He was absent "sick" when his company mustered out in May 1863 and died of wounds and pneumonia in Frederick on 8 August 1863.

His widow Catharine and minor children Thomas (b. 1852) and Mary (b. 1859) were granted pensions of $8 per month in February 1864 for his service.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial in Frederick to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Francis Newman, and the MSHWR.3 Burial information from the cemetery History,4 which has him in Company A. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Francis Newman.

Birth

c. 1829; County Galway, IRELAND

Death

08/08/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, 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. 1041 [AotW citation 31297]

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 #1.187 [AotW citation 31298]

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. 222 [AotW citation 31299]

4 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 108 [AotW citation 31300]

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