(c. 1835 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 97th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 27, he enlisted at White Lake on 24 January 1862 as Private, Company H, 97th New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD but died there of wounds on 7 October 1862. He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1835
Death
10/07/1862; 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 3752]
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 1902, Ser. No. 32, pg. 877 [AotW citation 25051]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 280 [AotW citation 25052]