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(1842 - 1896)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 22nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlisted on 10 May 1861 in Albany and mustered as a Private in Company B, 22nd New York Infantry on 6 June.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and
he lost his right arm which was shattered and broken by a musket ball and immediately amputated, while in the field.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 18 November 1862 at Baltimore.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 The quote above from an affidavit of 30 December 1865 accompanying his entry in a left-hand penmanship contest, now at the Library of Congress. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
04/11/1842; Fort Ann, NY
Death
06/17/1896; Warrensburg, NY; burial in Warrensburg Cemetery, Warrensburg, NY
1 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 [AotW citation 6217]