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(1843 - 1917)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Maryland Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer on his parent's place at Cambridge in Washington County, NY. He enlisted on 12 August 1861 in Boston, MA, and mustered in New York City as a Private in Company C, 3rd Maryland Infantry on 29 August. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1861 but reduced to Private on 10 December. He was on detached duty as a sharpshooter in June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot to the left side of his face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, with destruction of his left eye and fracture of his upper jaw.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October, transferred to Camp A, and sent on to Jarvis US Army General Hospital in Baltimore on 9 March 1863. He was discharged for disability on 16 April 1863 and awarded a disability pension.
After the War
He returned to Washington County, NY and was back on his parent's farm by 1865 and lived there to at least 1880. By 1900 and to at least 1915 he farmed his own place at Monticello in Sullivan County, NY.
References & notes
His service basics from Wilmer,1 his Compiled Service Records,2 and his Pension Card; the latter 2 online from fold3, all as David Kenyon. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 3 and the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and the New York State Census of 1865, 1875, and 1915. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Medora L. Cassels (1842-1918) in 1867.
Birth
01/17/1843; Cambridge, NY
Death
01/20/1917; Monticello, NY; burial in Whiteside Church Cemetery, South Cambridge, NY
1 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, Vol. 1, p. 129 [AotW citation 31386]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31389]
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 1, p. 337 [AotW citation 31388]
4 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 #41 [AotW citation 31387]