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Federal (USV)

Private

James A. McCoy

(c. 1834 - 1863)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Sergeant in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was reduced to Private, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 23 October 1862 to join the regular US Army, and enlisted on that date at Knoxville, MD as a Private in Company C of the 6th United States Cavalry. He was captured, date and place not found, and died of pneumonia in CS General Hospital #21 in Richmond, VA on 30 November 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General1 (who says he transferred to the 6th Indiana Cavalry, in error) and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1834; Carroll County, OH

Death

11/30/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Richmond National Cemetery, Henrico County, VA

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. 277 [AotW citation 33544]

2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 599 [AotW citation 33545]

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. 308 [AotW citation 33546]

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