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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old apprentice carpenter, living with his parents and 3 siblings in New York City. He enlisted at Great Neck, NY, and mustered as a Private in Company B, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 14 March 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1905 he was a carpenter in Manahattan.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, and the NY State Census of 1905; he was of Bavarian parents, his surname also spelled Woolfor and Wolfor.
Birth
c. 1840 in NY
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 8597]