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Federal (USV)

Private

Dennis Tivenan

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 28, he enlisted on 14 May 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company E, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg and his left leg was amputated. He was sent to the Smoketown/Antietam field hospital, date not given, and was discharged there for disability on 3 March 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 also as Dennis Tivernan and Tuenan. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1833

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 8588]

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. 413  [AotW citation 30104]