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(c. 1826 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 69th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 35 years, he enrolled in Buffalo to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company K, 69th New York Infantry on 20 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the neck and shoulder by a "conoidal ball [which] fractured the neck and lodged in the head of the left humerus" in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 4 October and
[t]he head and three inches of the shaft of the humerus were removed, on October 9th, by Surgeon [H.] S. Hewit, U. S. V. Died on October 17, 1862, of irritative fever.
After the War
He was originally buried in Frederick, MD, probably in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, and was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service information from the Roster,2 which says he was killed outright on 17 September. The quotes above from McLernon,3 originally from the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion 4. Frederick details from the Patient List.5 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
More on the Web
There is a memorial on Findagrave for a burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY for "Pvt James McQueen" noted with "Pvt., U.S. Army, Civil War. (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)." This may be the same man, but may also be Capt. James McQueen (1831-61), Co. B, 15th New York Engineers, who died on 18 September 1861, either from an accidental injury or a bayonet wound. See more about him in an exhibit online from the Green-Wood Cemetery.
Birth
c. 1826
Death
10/17/1862; 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 3908]
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. 28, pg. 238 [AotW citation 17984]
3 McLernon, Robert, Casualty List, 69th New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher's Irish Brigade, Bloody Lane, Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1862, Springfield (Va): R. McLernon, 2014, pg. 10 [AotW citation 17985]
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. 587 [AotW citation 33094]
5 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 #734 [AotW citation 33095]