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J. Cody
(c. 1831 - ?)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 30 year old clerk boarding with Michael Byrne and family in Boston, MA. He enlisted there on 17 April 1861 and mustered at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor on 16 July as a Private in Company B, 13th Massachusetts Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot through his right thigh.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Academy Hospital in Chambersburg, PA, was captured there by Confederate raiders, and was paroled on 11 October. He was discharged for disability from wounds at Boston, MA on 29 December 1862.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1876 and by 1880 was a porter in a leather store in Boston.
References & notes
His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His picture, from a Company B photo album in Scott D Hann's collection, was published in the September/October 2002 issue of Military Images magazine.
He married Frances B. Meagher (1834-) in January 1866 and they had a son, Joseph (b. 1870).
Birth
c. 1831 in IRELAND
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. 79 - 84 [AotW citation 6888]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34708]