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Federal (USV)

Private

Ernest Arend

(c. 1832 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, he enlisted on 29 June 1861 in New York City, and mustered as a Private in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 6 July.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, and discharged for disability on 5 May 1863 at Philadelphia, PA. He began receiving an invalid's pension in July 1863.

After the War

He died before 1890; in that year his widow Elizabeth was living in Newark (or Passaic), Essex County, NJ.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 as Ernest Ahrend. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 as A. Avant. He's also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Ernest Arand. Personal details from the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890).

Birth

c. 1832

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 23 (for the year 1900) [AotW citation 8512]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 118 [AotW citation 16193]

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