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(1837 - 1903)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted as a Private in Company E, 7th New York Infantry on 20 September 1861 in New York City for 2 years service and mustered on the 30th.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to the right side of his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Philadelphia on the 30th. He was discharged for disability on 13 March 1863 in Baltimore, MD. He began receiving a invalid veteran's pension in April 1863.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer at Quindaro in Wyandotte County, KS and in 1900 he was farming in Gallatin Township, Clay County, MO.
References & notes
Service information from the State of New York,1 also as Conrad Hanson. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 and 1900. Thanks to Tom Nardo for the pointer to his gravesite on Findagrave, as a Corporal.
He married Agnes Schroeder (1852-1937) in Franklin County, MO in September 1871 and they had 8 children.
Birth
03/29/1837; Meldorf, Schleswig-Holstein, GERMANY
Death
08/14/1903; Clay County, MO; burial in Saint Matthew's Cemetery, Riverside, MO
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, Issue 18 (for 1899), pp. 165 - 197 [AotW citation 7603]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.810 [AotW citation 28473]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 236 [AotW citation 28474]