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(1836 - 1875)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 49th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 24, from Ellicott, he enlisted in Fredonia on 22 August 1861 for three years and mustered as a Private in Company A, 49th New York Infantry on 24 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 with
destruction of left eye, nose, malar [cheek] and turbinated [nasal] bones ... great disfiguration.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield and discharged for disability on 6 (or 12) December 1862.
After the War
By 1865 and to at least 1870 he was a farmer at Ellicott, NY.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General1 and his Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870, and the New York State Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married C. Electa Mathews (later Sherman, 1845-1901) in September 1863 and they had 2 sons, Grant U and Frank Herbert Sweet.
Birth
08/31/1836; Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY
Death
02/19/1875; Jamestown, NY; burial in Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, NY
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 1900, Ser. No. 24, p. 1351 [AotW citation 31409]
2 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. 341 [AotW citation 31410]