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Federal (USV)

Private

John Welsh

(c. 1822 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 40, he enlisted in New York City, and mustered as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 9 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the left shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, but died of wounds on 7 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1822

Death

10/07/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 8592]

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. 432 [AotW citation 30107]

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