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Federal (USV)

Private

John F. Commey

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

He was an unmarried 18 year old farmer from Aroostook, ME when he enlisted on 16 August and mustered as a Private in Company H, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde,1 as J.F. Commey. His service from the the Adjutant General2 and the Card File,3 also as Commay, Cormmey, Cormry, or Carmmay.

Birth

c. 1843; Oldtown, ME

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02  [AotW citation 6674]

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, Appendix D, pg. 274  [AotW citation 29269]

3   State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000  [AotW citation 29270]