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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Henry Van Voost

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company E, and was 2nd Lieutenant at Antietam. He was wounded on 21 October 1861 at Ball's Bluff, VA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Later promoted to First Lieutenant.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the Report and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

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 8589]