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Federal (USV)

Private

John McDonough

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 20th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 19 year old laborer, giving his residence as Ireland, he mustered as Private, Company F, 20th Massachusetts Infantry on 26 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at a field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near the battlefield on 19 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery, grave #905, about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines,2 which says he was killed outright on 17 September. Death details from a casualty list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842 in IRELAND

Death

09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 3873]

2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 545 [AotW citation 20698]

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