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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Patrick O'Reilly

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was 19 years old when he enlisted at Long Island, and he mustered in as Sergeant, Company E, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army General hospital in Frederick, MD on 25 September but died there on 6 October 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which lists him as Private Patrick Oakley. Service data from the State of New York,2, also as Patrick Reilly. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

10/06/1862; Frederick, 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 3998]

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, Issue 23 (for the year 1900), pg. 1059 [AotW citation 8484]

3 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 #9.999 [AotW citation 30102]

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