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Federal (USV)

Private

Edward Donnelly

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, he enlisted 7 October 1861 in New York City for three years and mustered as a Private in Company C, 51st New York Infantry on 8 October.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick on 3 October with serious bleeding, and his brachial artery (upper arm) was tied off on 6 October. His arm was amputated the next day and he died of his wounds on 7 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General,1 as Edward Donnally. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3

Birth

c. 1831

Death

11/07/1862; Frederick, 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, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 25, pg. 60 [AotW citation 22455]

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 #89 [AotW citation 22456]

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 2, pp. 448, 469 [AotW citation 32103]

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