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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 89th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20, he enlisted on 9 September 1861 at Whitney's Point, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 89th New York Infantry on 1 October.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot that broke his thigh bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds and tetanus on 23 September 1862, probably at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial near the battlefield in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service data from the NY Adjutant General,2 who has his death on 29 September. Wound and death details from a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as C.J. Courtney.
Birth
c. 1841
Death
09/23/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3375]
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 (Issue 31), pg. 203 [AotW citation 12412]