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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

John C. Joyce

(c. 1823 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 38, he enlisted on 2 July 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company E, 42nd New York Infantry on 16 July. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm at Sharpsburg.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 who do not mention his wounding. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1823

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. 23, p. 985 [AotW citation 30235]

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 #303 [AotW citation 30236]

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