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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry E. Bogardus

(1837 - 1907)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 34th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old living with his parents, farmer workers, in Tuscarora, Steuben County, NY. He enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 34th New York Infantry on 5 June. He was promoted to Corporal (date not given) and Sergeant, on 30 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company on 30 June 1863 in Albany.

After the War

In 1870 he was a worker on his in-laws' farm in Tuscarora. In 1880 he was working his own farm there, but by 1900 was a day laborer.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E Carr in 1863 and they had a daughter Jennie (1866-1912).

Birth

1837

Death

1907; burial in Carrtown Cemetery, Tuscarora, NY

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 22 (for the year 1900) [AotW citation 8260]

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