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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Enoch B. Turney

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

A 20 year old farmer in Presque Isle, he mustered as Private, Company I, 7th Maine Infantry on 22 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot in the leg 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 but died there of wounds on 23 October 1862. He was reinterred from his original burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and Nelson.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1841; Simonds, New Brunswick, CANADA

Death

10/23/1862; 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 4282]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 188 [AotW citation 20828]

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 #4.869 [AotW citation 20829]

4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 418 [AotW citation 20830]

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