Timothy Donohoe

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Timothy Donohoe

• Company B, 69th Regiment, New York State
  Volunteers, 1st Regiment, Irish Brigade

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Family Name

• Timothy Donoghe on Recruit Statement
• Timothy Donoghoe on Enlistment Papers and
  Declaration of Invalid Pension
• Timothy Donaghoe and Timothy Donahoe on Casualty
  Sheet
• Timothy Donoghue on Medal of Honor Citation
• Timothy Donohoe on Pay Document Hospital, Invalid
  Pension Application, and Death Certificate
• Timothy Donahue on Discharge Papers

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1862

• American Civil War going on for one year
• Timothy Donoghoe emigrates to America from
  Ireland
• He enlisted on 15 September 1862. Private Company
  B, 69th NYSV
• 69th Regiment, Irish Brigade fights at Antietam,
  Maryland on September 21st. Southern Forces move
  south and Northern Forces delay pursuit. Finally
  move toward Richmond. Southerners position army
  in Fredericksburg await attack.

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Declaration of Recruit
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Enlistment Document

• In New York City for 3 years
• Occupation - Clerk
• Grey Eyes
• Light Complexion
• Light Hair
• 5 ft 91/2 in. tall

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Fredericksburg

• Southern Forces position themselves across the
  Rappahannock River on Maryes Heights overlooking
  the town.

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69th at Fredericksburg

• So many of the 69ths officers were lost at
  Antietam that Captain Thomas Leddy of Company B
  was now the senior captain in the Regiment.
• Lieutenant Andrew Bermingham was temporarily
  transferred to command Company B, to replace
  Leddy, who would be acting as major during the
  battle.
• The Green Flags had been returned to New York.
  Men wore boxwood sprigs in their caps.

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Fredericksburg

• Less than a hundred yards from the Rebel lines,
  the Irish Brigade charged on. Amazingly, a cheer
  went up from the Confederates sheltered behind
  the stone wall. They cheered the gallantry of the
  Irish attack, they had never seen anything like
  it. Then the men in gray leveled their muskets
  and poured a sheet of fire into the Brigade.
• Wounded or not, most of the Irish went down. A
  few hardy souls pressed on and dashed over the
  last fifty yards to the wall. But they were
  quickly shot down.
• When the battle ended, the Rebels would note that
  the Union men closest to the wall wore sprigs of
  boxwood in their caps.

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Southern Position
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Mural Room
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Timothy Donaghoe

• Wounded Severely between December 10th and
  December 17th 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg,
  Mayres Heights

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Pay

• March 12, 1863 L.D. Farnsworth, Surgeon in Charge
  of the Staunton Hospital paid Timothy Donohoe
  19.93 for service in Company B from September
  15, 1862 until October 31, 1862

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Discharge

• December 1, 1863 Discharged Sergeant Timothy
  Donahue from Company B 69th NY as a supernumerary
  non-commissioned officer and transferred to the
  Invalid Corps

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Application for Pension

• January 26, 1864
• 39 Years of age
• Resident of New York City
• Wounded by enemy shot in the right thigh
• Unable to perform work

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Declaration of Invalid Pension

• 13 July 1891
• 67 Years of age Resident of Brooklyn, 594 Warren
  Street Suffering from Sciatica, Kidney Trouble,
  Defective Sight

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Medal of Honor

• 17 January 1894
• Citation DONOGHUE, TIMOTHY
• Rank and organization Private, Company B, 69th
  New York Infantry. Place and date At
  Fredericksburg, Va., 13 December 1862. Entered
  service at------. Birth Ireland. Date of issue
  17 January 1894. Citation Voluntarily carried a
  wounded officer off the field from between the
  lines while doing this he was himself wounded.
• Officer he carried from the field was probably
  Lieutenant Andrew Bermingham only officer with
  Company B

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March 19th 1908 at 9PM

• Died at 537 Butler Street, Brooklyn, New York
• Married Laborer - Born in Ireland
• Lived in the U.S. 46 years (Arrived in 1862) He
  was 84 years old
• Fathers Name Timothy Donohoe
• Mothers Maiden Name Mary Carr
• Cause Apoplexy cardiac asthenia
• Buried March 22, 1908 Holy Cross

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Esther M Donohoe

• January 16,1910 Timothy Donohoes widow, who was
  paid 12 / month pension until November 4, 1909,
  died and was dropped from the pension rolls on
  February 2, 1910

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Timothy Donohue

• Soldier and Hero
• Distinguished Member of the 69th Regiment