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(c. 1830 - 1905)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 33rd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 29 year old engraver in Rochester, NY. He enlisted in Elmira, NY on 22 May 1861 and mustered as Commissary Sergeant of the 33rd New York Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company C on 9 August to date from 29 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through his left thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and carried to the rear by Sergeant Major Bassett.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to First Lieutenant, Company B on 16 November (to date from 17 October) 1862 and mustered out with his company on 2 June 1863 in Geneva, NY.
After the War
He was granted a veteran's pension for disability in April 1871. He was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Hampton, VA on 11 July 1900. He was discharged and readmitted twice, 1901-1903, and died at the Home of pneumonia in 1905.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York1 and his muster roll extracts, online from fold3. Antietam wound details from Judd.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and the Registers.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married English-born Jessie Ross (1830-1880) in March 1851 and they had at least 2 children.
More on the Web
See one of the many engravings Mix produced for the 1864 33rd NY regimental history, over on the blog.
Birth
c. 1830; New Haven, CT
Death
02/04/1905; Hampton, VA; burial in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, VA
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 22, p. 95 [AotW citation 35060]
2 Judd, David W., and Illustrations by Lt. L.C. Mix, The Story of the Thirty-third N. Y. S. Vols: or Two Years Campaigning in Virginia and Maryland, Rochester: Benton & Andrews, 1864, p. 192 [AotW citation 35061]