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J. Murphy
(1836 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 34th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of Irish parents, age 25, he enlisted on 7 October 1861 in West Troy and mustered the same day as a Private in Company A, 34th New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His body was taken home and he was buried there on 26 October 1862.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, in which his mother does not appear. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the collection of Diana Cservak shared to the Facebook Civil War Faces page by Jim Jerorski; thanks to John Banks for the pointer to that.
Birth
06/1836; West Troy, NY
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Saint Patrick's Cemetery, Watervliet, NY
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, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 22, pg. 238 [AotW citation 8326]