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Federal (USV)

Private

Lawrence Lynch

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 25 May 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company E, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in both thighs in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent, in hospital, to at least August 1863. He transferred to Company A, 12th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps in September or October 1863 and mustered out on 23 June 1864 in Washington, DC.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Extract in the NY State Archives, via fold3. Wound detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1843

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 8549]

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. 295 [AotW citation 30109]

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