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Federal (USV)

Private

James McGrath

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Canton, he enlisted as a Private in Company B (called K in Federal service), 2nd Connecticut Infantry for 3 months on 22 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 7 August. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company E, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 23 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service information from the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave; he is also on the Canton Memorial Monument. in Collinsville, CT.

He's probably the James McGrath born 1 September 1842 in St. Nicholas, County Galway, IRELAND to Peter McGrath and Ann Lanahan, late of New York City.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

09/17/1862; 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 3880]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pp. 32, 629 [AotW citation 27146]

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