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Federal (USV)

Surgeon

Francis Reynolds

(1827 - 1887)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Medical

Unit: 88th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

From County Waterford, he enrolled in New York City to serve three years, and mustered as Surgeon of the 88th New York Infantry on 26 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He treated wounded soldiers on the field at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and afterward.

The rest of the War

He mustered out of the regiment on 15 August 1863 to accept the commission of Assistant Surgeon, US Volunteers and resigned on 22 September 1864. He was honored by brevet to Lieutenant Colonel for faithful and meritorious service on 13 March 1865.

After the War

He was Surgeon of the 2nd US Veteran Volunteers from March 1865 to March 1866. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, US Army on 16 November 1868 and retired on 28 June 1878.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of New York1 and Heitman.2 His work at Antietam from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Lawrence was Surgeon of the 63rd New York Infantry.

Birth

08/1827 in IRELAND

Death

03/04/1887; Oakland, CA; burial in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA

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 1901, Ser. No. 31, p. 142 [AotW citation 31349]

2 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, p. 825 [AotW citation 31351]

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: Pvt. James Davis, 88th NY, for example [AotW citation 31350]

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