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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Henry Gilmore King

(1835 - 1920)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 33rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a hardware store owner, in 1860 he was a 24 year old living with his parents in Nunda, Livingston County, NY. He enrolled there on 13 May 1861 and mustered as Ensign/2nd Lieutenant of Company F, the 33rd New York Infantry on 22 May at Elmira, NY. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 26 February (to rank from 6 February) 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 27 December 1862.

After the War

At the Veteran's Census of 1890 he was in Binghamton, NY, and reported then that his "leg was shot off," but he was noted by the census taker as "now insane and unable to give information." By 1910 he was a retired widower back in Nunda, NY and a boarder with Belle Swift there.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York1 and his muster roll extracts, online from fold3. Antietam wound detail from Judd.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1890, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1835 in NY

Death

12/05/1920; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Nunda, NY

Notes

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. 78 [AotW citation 35070]

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