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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 88th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
A quarryman's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old messenger living with his parents and younger sister Julia (age 15, a torpedo maker) in New York City. He enlisted there on 12 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 88th New York Infantry on 16 September.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder which shattered the neck of his humerus (upper arm bone) in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. The bullet lodged in his body and could not immediately be found.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and Assistant Surgeon A.K. Smith, USA removed the head and 3 inches of his humerus bone on 28 September, but he died there of infection on 9 October 1862.
The missile was found, post-mortem, to have traversed the lung and lodged in it, against spine of the 11th costo-vertebral articulation.
After the War
He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and his Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR,4 source also of the quote above. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1841 in IRELAND
Death
10/09/1862; 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 3497]
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, Ser. No. 31, pg. 48 [AotW citation 25163]
3 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 #4.392 [AotW citation 25164]
4 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. 586 [AotW citation 33093]