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(? - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 63rd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted in Albany, NY and mustered as a Private in Company K, 63rd New York Infantry on 4 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by "[gun]shot fracture of left humerus" in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. Surgeon J. N. Lyman of the 57th Pennsylvania Infantry excised (surgically removed) the head and four inches of his humerus bone the same day.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 24 September, but died there of his wounds on 22 October 1862.
He was originally buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Area O, southern corner of the cemetery, as Michael Layden, death on 23 October.
After the War
He was removed to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
His service from McLernon1 (listed as Michael McLoughlin in the Antietam casualty list) and the Adjutant General,2 also as borne as Laden and Layden. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 3 and the Patient List.4 His final burial from the History.5 His gravesite is on Findagrave, his stone has him as Michael Leden.
Death
10/22/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, 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 2462]
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. 99 [AotW citation 33082]
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 2, p. 571 [AotW citation 33083]
4 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 #313 [AotW citation 33084]
5 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 105 [AotW citation 3772]