Michael B. Horan

Age 27 at enlistment, he mustered in as private, Company I, on January 16, 1862.

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

He died of his wounds on October 22, 1862, at Frederick, Md.

The MSHWR says

"Case 621. Private M. B. Horan F 63 NY, was wounded at Antietam, September 17, 1862, entered Frederick Hospital one week afterwards. Surgeon H. S. Hewit, U. S. V., contributed the pathological specimen (cat. Surg. Sect., 1866, p. 290, Spec. 445), and reported the case as a "partial resection of the knee joint, performed, October 4th, for a shot injury of the condyles of the femur, and followed by death October 14, 1862." The specimen consists of thirteen minute fragments of dead bone."

Basic information from McLernon1. His name appears in a Roll of Honor for Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md., Area O, southern corner of the cemetery (October 16). Michael B. Horan is buried in Antietam National Cemetery, Section: New York Grave Number 271.

10/22/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD