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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael Riley

(c. 1834 - 1917)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

An 38 year old bootmaker in Weymouth, MA, he enlisted there on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company H, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 19 August.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

In December 1862 he was detailed as a nurse, and in May 1863 to the Provost Guard. He was wounded at Jackson, MS on 16 July 1863, detailed as an ambulance driver from September 1863 to at least April 1865, and mustered out on 9 June 1865 in Alexandria, VA.

References & notes

His service basics from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines,1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Michael Reilly. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1834 in IRELAND

Death

09/27/1917; Weymouth, MA; burial in Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery, Weymouth, MA

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 31404]

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 31405]

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