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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Boyle

(c. 1817 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 33rd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 44, he enlisted 6 July 1861 in Company K, 33rd New York Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in Maryland but died, probably of disease, at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 16 November 1862.

After the War

He was initially buried in a plot near the Alms House in Hagerstown, but was reinterred at the new Antietam National Cemetery in 1866-67.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which lists him as Thomas Coyle, with his service from the State of New York.2 Death details from an article in the Hagerstown Herald of Freedom & Torch Light of 12 November 1862.

Birth

c. 1817

Death

11/16/1862; Hagerstown, 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 3378]

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 1900, Ser. No. 22, pg. 16 [AotW citation 17661]

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