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(c. 1825 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 63rd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 35, he enlisted in New York City on 18 September 1861 to serve 3 years and mustered as a Private in Company H, 63rd New York Infantry on 19 October. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 July 1862 and may have been appointed Sergeant by September.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot(s) to one or both legs in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and his leg was amputated at the upper third of his thigh the same day.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds on 22 (or 20) September 1862 in a field hospital at Sharpsburg.
References & notes
His service and basic casualty information from McLernon1 and the State of New York,2 which has his death on 20 September. Wound and amputation details from the MSHWR, 3 as Pvt. W. Crawton, and Nelson.4 Personal details from research in his widow Ellen's pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; Ellen began receiving her pension of $8.00 a month in January 1863, and was in Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland by 1873.
More on the Web
Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.
Birth
c. 1825 in IRELAND
Death
09/22/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 63rd New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Antietam, Maryland; September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2001 [AotW citation 2432]
2 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 1901, Ser. No. 27, p. 32 [AotW citation 33969]
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 3, p. 220 [AotW citation 33970]
4 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. 175 [AotW citation 33971]