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Federal (USV)

Private

Cornelius Donoho

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

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

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the back and both shoulders in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds on 23 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Cornelius Donohough. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/23/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 8533]

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. 191 [AotW citation 30101]

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