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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Michael Gerrin

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24, he enlisted in New York City, and mustered as a Private in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 10 January 1862. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 April.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left shoulder 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, then listed as a deserter from the US Army General Hospital in Philadelphia, PA on 22 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2 His wound also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Michael Gerran.

He may be the Michael Garahan (d. 1910) buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.

Birth

c. 1838

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 8540]

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. 221 [AotW citation 30122]

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