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Federal (USV)

Private

Marks Gallagher

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 26, he enlisted in New York City, and mustered as a Private in Company D, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

He may have been reinterred from his original burial on the battlefield to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 He's listed as wounded on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Max Gallagher. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1835

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, 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 8542]

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