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Federal (USV)

Private

Andrew Freeman Cotrell

(c. 1838 - 1872)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 97th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old laborer, he enlisted on 13 November 1861 in Little Falls, NY for three years, and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 97th NY Infantry on 26 November.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left wrist or arm in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His left hand was amputated and he was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield. He was discharged for disability from wounds at a hospital in Washington, DC on 8 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York1 with details from his Muster Roll Extracts, online from fold3. Additional wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 as A.F. Copprace. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838; Mannheim, NY

Death

07/02/1872; Manheim, NY; burial in Yellow Church Cemetery, Manheim Center, NY

Notes

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 7042]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 172 [AotW citation 30965]

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