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(c. 1825 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 36, he enlisted on 22 June 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company G, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June.
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 11 March 1863 at Falmouth, VA.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 also as John Seyar. He's listed as John Legar in a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.
Birth
c. 1825
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 8587]