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Federal (USV)

Private

Malachi Dailey

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted on 5 September 1861 in New York City for three years, and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 61st NY Infantry on 18 September. He transferred to Company F on 1 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded, bruised on the left side of his chest by a (spent?) bullet, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter as of 1 August 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 as Malacki Dailey. Wound detail from Nelson,2 who has him as a Corporal in Company K.

Birth

c. 1837

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905, Issue 26 (for 1900) [AotW citation 7691]

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. 180 [AotW citation 30964]

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