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(c. 1830 - 1866)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 66th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 30 year old machinist living in New York City. He enlisted there on 30 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 66th New York Infantry on 4 November.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 with
Destruction of left eye by comoidal ball.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital near the battlefield then sent to a hospital in Philadelphia. He was discharged on 28 November (or 29 December) 1862 at the General Hospital in the Fairfax Seminary, VA.
He enrolled as a Private in Company I, 10th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps in December 1864 in Boston and served with them to at least October 1865.
He was ill at discharge and died of chronic dysentery on 30 March 1866.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his widow's 1866 pension application, online from fold3.
He married Mary Rebecca Diamond (later Clark, 1835-) in July 1857 in Washington, DC and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1830 in ENGLAND
Death
03/30/1866; Washington, DC
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 27 (for 1901) [AotW citation 7932]
2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 334 [AotW citation 31376]