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Federal (USV)

Private

Bernard Deary

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 27, he enlisted on Long Island, NY and mustered in as Private, Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshots to his right foot and right hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September and transferred, place not given, on 2 January 1863. He was discharged for disability sometime after.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,2, also as Deery. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List2 as Barney Deery.

Birth

c. 1834

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 8532]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #635 [AotW citation 30121]

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