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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Thomas Connor

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was 30 years old when he enlisted on Long Island, and he mustered in as Private, Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as Thomas Conway. Service data from the State of New York.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1831

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3365]

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, Issue 23 (for the year 1900), pg. 925 [AotW citation 8489]

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