Enlisted on August 2, 1861 at New York City, New York as a Private in the 51st New York Infantry, Company H, at the age of 40.∼Andrew J. Patterson served in the Union Army during the Civil War enlisting at age 40 in Company H, 51st New York Infantry in New York for three years. His regiment participated in the "Burnside Expedition" where a large force of the Union Army boarded ships traveling along the east coast making an amphibious "Marine-Like" landing on Roanoke Island. NC - although met with little Confederate resistance. He was later assigned on detached duty as a nurse in a Union Hospital in New Bern, NC (a bank building, now the BB&T (rebuilt) downtown) which remained occupied by the Union Army the remainder of the war. After the war Andrew resided in "Washington City" now referred to simply as "D.C." living at 439 M. Street, N. W. and ; later at 447 G. Street, N.W. cited as1888. Andrew Passed away on May 14, 1892 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. If you ever in Washington you may want to visit his gravesite.
Andrew was 5' 10" tall, brown hair, grey eyes with a fair complexion. Was a watchmaker.
If you are interested in learning more about the 51st New York read "Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman". George Whitman was Walt Whitman's brother who served in the 51st New York), Duke University Press, 1975 and "The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina", by Richard A. Sears, Morningside House, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, 1996.
Terrence W. Beltz, Colonel, US Army (Ret.)
Andrew was 5' 10" tall, brown hair, grey eyes with a fair complexion. Was a watchmaker.
If you are interested in learning more about the 51st New York read "Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman". George Whitman was Walt Whitman's brother who served in the 51st New York), Duke University Press, 1975 and "The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina", by Richard A. Sears, Morningside House, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, 1996.
Terrence W. Beltz, Colonel, US Army (Ret.)
Enlisted on August 2, 1861 at New York City, New York as a Private in the 51st New York Infantry, Company H, at the age of 40.∼Andrew J. Patterson served in the Union Army during the Civil War enlisting at age 40 in Company H, 51st New York Infantry in New York for three years. His regiment participated in the "Burnside Expedition" where a large force of the Union Army boarded ships traveling along the east coast making an amphibious "Marine-Like" landing on Roanoke Island. NC - although met with little Confederate resistance. He was later assigned on detached duty as a nurse in a Union Hospital in New Bern, NC (a bank building, now the BB&T (rebuilt) downtown) which remained occupied by the Union Army the remainder of the war. After the war Andrew resided in "Washington City" now referred to simply as "D.C." living at 439 M. Street, N. W. and ; later at 447 G. Street, N.W. cited as1888. Andrew Passed away on May 14, 1892 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. If you ever in Washington you may want to visit his gravesite.
Andrew was 5' 10" tall, brown hair, grey eyes with a fair complexion. Was a watchmaker.
If you are interested in learning more about the 51st New York read "Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman". George Whitman was Walt Whitman's brother who served in the 51st New York), Duke University Press, 1975 and "The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina", by Richard A. Sears, Morningside House, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, 1996.
Terrence W. Beltz, Colonel, US Army (Ret.)
Andrew was 5' 10" tall, brown hair, grey eyes with a fair complexion. Was a watchmaker.
If you are interested in learning more about the 51st New York read "Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman". George Whitman was Walt Whitman's brother who served in the 51st New York), Duke University Press, 1975 and "The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina", by Richard A. Sears, Morningside House, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, 1996.
Terrence W. Beltz, Colonel, US Army (Ret.)
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