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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Clare

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, he enlisted on 2 October 1861 in New York City for three years, and he mustered as a Private in Company E, 61st NY Infantry on 5 October. He transferred to Company F on 1 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to the flesh of his left knee in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and sent on to Baltimore on 31 October. He was discharged for disability on 12 February 1863 from the Convalescent Camp at Alexandria, VA.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 with details from his Muster Roll Extracts, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Thomas Clair.

Birth

c. 1835

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, Issue 26 (for 1900) [AotW citation 7688]

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 #316 [AotW citation 30963]

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