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(c. 1831 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He probably had 3-months service as a Private in Company D, 12th New York State Militia in 1861. At age 30, he enlisted on 1 September 1861 in New York City and mustered the next day as a Sergeant in Company L, 9th New York State Militia (83rd Regiment).
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862:
A ball entered two inches below the spine of the scapula and emerged one inch and a half below the acromion, shattering the head and upper part of the neck of the humerus.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 26 September. On 10 October his arm was badly swollen and he suffered from bedsores, but he was much improved by the end of the month. On 1 November he began to complain of pain in his chest, which was caused by advancing pneumonia, and he died at 1 p.m. the next day.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial in Frederick to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1831
Death
11/02/1862; Frederick, 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 3385]
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 30 (for 1901), pg. 546 [AotW citation 7352]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 513 [AotW citation 32134]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.580 [AotW citation 32135]