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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Riley

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old watchmaker in Roxbury, MA, he enlisted there on 1 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company K, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 10 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862:

destroying the left eye completely and injuring the sight of the right eye, and causing complete immobility of the lower jaw.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B and was discharged there for "total" disability on 18 (or 22) December 1862.

After the War

At the 1890 US Veterans' Census he was living in Boston, MA.

References & notes

His service basics from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines,1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, source of the quote above, from his Certificate of Disability for Discharge. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 3 and the Patient List.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35 [AotW citation 31400]

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 31401]

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. 340 [AotW citation 31402]

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 #123 [AotW citation 31403]

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