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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John McSweeny

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted on 26 May 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered as a Corporal in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 with no later record.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1

Birth

c. 1839

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 8562]