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E.S. Northrup

E.S. Northrup

Federal (USV)

Captain

Emerson S. Northrup

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 34th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

At age 19 he mustered in as Second Lieutenant, Co. K , June 15, 1861; as First Lieutenant, November 22, 1861; Wounded, June 30, 1862, at White Oak Swamp, VA; mustered in as Captain, August 30,1862.

On the Campaign

Commanded his Company at Antietam.

The rest of the War

Mustered out with his Company June 30, 1863.

References & notes

Basic information and his photograph from Chapin1. Service detail from State of New York2.

Birth

c. 1842

Notes

1   Chapin, Louis N., A Brief History of the Thirty-fourth Regiment N.Y.S.V. (1903), Little Falls (NY): Captain Henry Galpin CWRT, 1998, Intro., pp. 38 - 73  [AotW citation 8364]