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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Trainor

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was age 21 when he enlisted on 27 June 1861 on Long Island, and he mustered in as Private, Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1861. He transferred to Company C on 29 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September and died there on 5 November 1862.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, which lists him as Patrick Trainer. Service data from the State of New York2. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

11/05/1862; 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 4271]

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. 1089 [AotW citation 8481]

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 #650 [AotW citation 30148]

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