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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Michael Shea

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was 19 years old when he enlisted as Private in Company B, 61st NY Infantry on 22 August 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant on 18 September. Wounded in action at Fair Oaks, VA on 1 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated, probably at a field hospital near the battlefield and he was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 24 September. He died there of wounds on 24 November 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial in Frederick to the new National Cemetery about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which has him as Shay. His service from the State of New York.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Michael Shay. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Michael Shae.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

11/24/1862; 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 4153]

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 25 (for 1900), pg. 1055 [AotW citation 7651]

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 #331 [AotW citation 22585]

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