Hale S. Cuppernell

In 1860 he was an 18 year old day laborer living on a farm at Hamilton, Madison County, NY. He enlisted on 7 October 1861 in New York City for three years, and he mustered as a Corporal in Company G, 61st NY Infantry on 17 October. He was reduced to Private on 12 December 1861.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was absent recovering to about April 1863. He reenlisted on 21 December 1863 at Stevensburg, VA, was promoted to Sergeant on 28 March 1864, and was wounded again, by a gunshot to the head at Deep Bottom, VA on 16 August 1864. He mustered out on 12 August 1865, then in McDougal General Hospital in New York Harbor.

He died in April 1874 in Madison, WI of brain disease thought to be related to his head wound, 10 days after his 32nd birthday.

His service from the State of New York,1 as Hale S. Cupinal, Cuppernull, and Cuppernoll, with details from his Muster Roll Extracts, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, notably Arlene Coppernoll Cuba in The Coppernoll family in America, 1659-1970 (1970), and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Hannah Frances Shapley (1844-1865) in January 1864, and they had a daughter Nellie May. He married again, Mary E. Wayer (1848-1925) in May 1868 in Winnesheik County, IA and they had 2 sons, born in 1870 and 1873, both in Prescott, MN.

04/15/1842; Jefferson County, NY

04/25/1874; Madison, WI; burial in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Cresco, IA