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Federal (USV)

Private

James Young

(c. 1828 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 33, he enlisted in Pittsburgh on 14 June 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company H, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 July in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability at Washington, DC on 7 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Card File.1 His presence at Antietam from research in his pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; he received his US pension in Ireland.

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. 1828 in IRELAND

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17>  [AotW citation 33965]