D. Patten

Federal (USV)

Private

Danford Patten

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at Rochester at age 18, and mustered into service as a Private in Company G, 108th New York Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1. Washburn2 also lists him as Danforth Patten and Dantford Pelton. The photograph here kindly provided by GGGrandneice Sally Brooks Grutsch from a delicate family heirloom.

Birth

c. 1844

Death

09/17/1862; 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 34 (for the year 1903) [AotW citation 9123]

2 Washburn, George H., A Complete Military History and Record of the 108th Regiment N.Y. Vols., Rochester (NY): Press of E.R. Andrews, 1894, pp. 15, 30 [AotW citation 12010]

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