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Federal (USV)

Private

John Shoby

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 34, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861, and he transferred to Company C the next day.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 21 January 1863 at Fort Hamilton, NY.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York1 also as John Thoby. He's also on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as John Toby, missing in action.

Birth

c. 1827

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 8583]

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