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Federal (USV)

Corporal

James Eagan

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted on 10 June 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company A, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June. He was promoted to Corporal on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 He's listed as James Agin on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, which says he was wounded at Antietam.

Birth

c. 1837

Death

09/17/1862; 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 8535]

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