Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 24, he enlisted in Washington, DC, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 82nd New York Infantry on 20 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was probably mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, with no later military record.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which has nothing for him after Antietam; also as William Monaghan.
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 20 (for the year 1899) [AotW citation 8441]