(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 51st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 22, he enlisted 2 August 1861 in Kellogsville for three years and mustered as Corporal, Company F, 51st New York Infantry on 18 October 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 on 28 September at the Big Spring field hospital near Keedysville, MD. He was originally buried near the hospital, but was reinterred in the new National Cemetery during or before 1867.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839 in NY
Death
09/28/1862; Keedysville, 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 4080]
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. 186 [AotW citation 22454]