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Federal (USV)

Private

John White

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted at Great Neck, NY and mustered in as a Private in Company B, 42nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm 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 and his right forearm was amputated. He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 3 October and was discharged for disability on 13 (or 30) December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1840

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 8594]

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. 435 [AotW citation 30090]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #212 [AotW citation 30091]

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