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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry Vickrage

(c. 1836 - 1895)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enrolled on Long Island, NY and mustered in as a Corporal in Company A, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 April 1862, and was First Sergeant by Antietam.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter on 17 March 1863 at Camp Alexandria, VA.

After the War

By 1880 he was a brick mason in Saratoga County, NY.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 as Vickerage. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Alida A "Delia" Baker (later Mellon, 1839-1912) and they had 4 children between 1866 and 1878.

Birth

c. 1836; East Greenbush, NY

Death

08/22/1895; Ballston Spa, NY; burial in Ballston Spa Village Cemetery, Ballston Spa, NY

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 8590]

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