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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Brien

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 22 May 1861 in New York City, and mustered in as a Private in Company D, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 21 November 1862 at New York City.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Joseph Bryant. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

Date not known; burial in Neillsville City Cemetery, Neillsville, WI

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 8517]

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