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(1843 - 1893)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Company Officer
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 18, he enlisted in New York City on 25 August 1861 and mustered on 10 September as a Private in Company A, 61st New York Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant-Major of the Regiment on 21 September and appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company C on 13 August 1862 (date of rank 1 July 62).
On the Campaign
He was awarded the Medal of Honor (in 1887) for bravery in seizing the colors of the 44th Alabama Infantry during combat in the Sunken Road on 17 September 1862. Even though wounded through the neck, he brought the flag in.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield and briefly at US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick on 23 and 24 September. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 17 November 1862 (to date from 26 June) and to Captain of Company K on 30 March 1863, to rank from the Battle of Antietam. He mustered out on 31 August 1864.
After the War
Then a clerk in New York City, he enlisted again on 27 January 1873 and was assigned as a Private to service at the US Army's Headquarters, Department of the Atlantic, then in the Department of the East. He was discharged about 6 months later on 1 July. He was living at 2148 7th Avenue in Harlem, New York City at the Veteran's Census of 1890.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the Patient List.3 His 1873 enlistment from the Registers.4 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Marie Louisa Barmore (1849-) in July 1873 and they had a daughter Florence. He married again, Caroline L. Monfort (c. 1858-) in November 1884.
Birth
03/13/1843; New York, NY
Death
11/17/1893; Manhattan, NY; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, 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 25 (for 1900), pg. 930 [AotW citation 7647]
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. 229 [AotW citation 33978]
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 #s274 & 34 [AotW citation 33979]
4 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 73, p. 262 [AotW citation 33980]