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(c. 1822 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 51st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 39, he enlisted 7 October 1861 i New York City and mustered as Corporal, Company C, 51st New York Infantry on 8 October. He was promoted to Sergeant on 13 September 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at the Lower Antietam bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was reinterred from his original burial near the Burnside Bridge on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery during or before 1867.
References & notes
Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service from the Adjutant General.2 His initial grave location and other details from Frassanito.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Ann Story () in Manhattan in December 1844, and they had no children. She moved to Philadelphia shortly after his death.
More on the Web
His was one of the graves near Burnside's Bridge photographed by Alexander Gardner on 21 September 1862 (from the Library of Congress). His was one of at least 9 graves for men of the 51st NY; 4 identified. He is the one buried at the feet of the live soldier posing in that picture.
Birth
c. 1822
Death
09/17/1862; 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 3811]
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. 25, pg. 132 [AotW citation 21835]
3 Frassanito, William A., Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978, pg. 240 [AotW citation 21836]