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(c. 1836 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 25, he enlisted on 24 June 1861 in New York City, mustered as a Private in Company K, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June, and was transferred to Company I the same day.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg and his leg was amuptated in the lower third of his thigh, but he died on 1 October 1862.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which has him as absent after Antietam; he's also listed as Joseph Braig. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 also as Joseph Bragg. He's on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Joseph Brady.
Birth
c. 1836
Death
10/01/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 8516]
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, p. 140 [AotW citation 30119]