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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Patrick J. Stephens

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a railroad man living with engineer Barney Wandell and family at Vincennes in Knox County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company B, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal and Sergeant, dates not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and transferred to Philadelphia the next day. He was discharged for disability on 20 January 1863.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1838 in IRELAND

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 276 [AotW citation 33457]

2 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 #362 [AotW citation 33458]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 401 [AotW citation 33459]

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