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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Cornelius Foley

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 82nd New York Infantry (2nd Militia)

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 17 April 1861 in New York City, and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 82nd New York Infantry on 21 May. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

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 30 (for the year 1901) [AotW citation 8417]

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