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Federal (USV)

Private

John Cooney

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Stafford, age 35, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 21 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but he had been wounded, possibly mortally, by a gunshot to his abdomen.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 3 October and transferred out to Baltimore, MD on the 31 October 1862. There is no later record.

References & notes

His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2. Birth detail from Gordon.3 Wound and hospital detail from the Patient List,4 as J. Cooney.

Birth

c. 1827 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 660 - 663 [AotW citation 5594]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 635 [AotW citation 27272]

3 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27273]

4 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 #692 [AotW citation 27350]

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