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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 22, he enlisted on Long Island, NY, and mustered as a Private in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through his head - temple to temple - taking both eyes in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #8 at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 1 (or 4) October. He was discharged for disability there on 19 December 1862. He later reported his lower jaw had anchylosed - fused to immobility.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 as Henry Zuinau and Henry Ziman. He's listed as Zinnerman on a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and MSHWR.3
Birth
c. 1839
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 8600]
2 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 #251 [AotW citation 30132]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 327 [AotW citation 30133]