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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Campbell

(1837 - 1908)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, an operative from Blackstone, MA, he enlisted on 1 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 15th Massachusetts Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a piece of shell to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 13 May 1863.

After the War

He was admitted to the US Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Togus, ME on 3 July 1874 and discharged in October 1876. He was in the branch of the Home at Dayton, OH by May 1877. In 1900 he was living in Easthampton, MA. He died of senility in the State Hospital, Northampton, MA in 1908.

References & notes

His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1900, and the Registers.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Elizabeth Bridget McDade Graves (1844-1916) in 1881 and they had a daughter Mary Theresa (1889-1972).

Birth

04/1837; Dublin, IRELAND

Death

03/11/1908; Northampton, MA; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, South Hadley, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 196 - 199 [AotW citation 5947]

2 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938, registration #2163 [AotW citation 33974]

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