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Federal (USV)

Private

Felix McHannan

(c. 1832 - 1895)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

About age 30, from Lewiston, he enlisted as a Private in Company K, 7th Maine Infantry on 9 February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing but had been captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled, date not given, and was absent, sick to at least January 1863. He was discharged for disability on 14 February 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was a worker in a boot and shoe factory in Cleveland, OH, and he was a bookbinder there in 1880. He was a resident of the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Santa Monica at his death, from stomach cancer, in 1895.

References & notes

His status at Antietam from Hyde,1 as P. McHannon. His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ann S. Byrnes (1832-) and they had 5 children between 1858 and 1867.

Birth

c. 1832 in IRELAND

Death

12/21/1895; Santa Monica, CA; burial in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA

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 6693]

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  [AotW citation 27856]