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Federal (USV)

Private

Francis Murray

"Frank"

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, mustered as a Private in Company D, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861, and transferred to Company G the next day.

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 His nickname from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1842

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 8566]