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The Military Service of James Flaney Company D
James Flanley enlisted as a Sergeant in Company D at the start of the regiment in August
23, 1861. He had experience with the Irish Militia in Philadelphia. On Dececember 12 he
was demoted to a Private. He served on the Pennisuula and fought at Savage Station and
Glendale. By September 1862 he was seriously ill and was sent to a military hospital in York
Pennsylvania where he would remain until April 1864, missing Fredericksburg and
Gettysburg. He reported back to the regiment and fought with Company D at Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, North Anna River and Cold Harbor. Then at the Battle of Ream's Station he
was taken prisoner but paroled a month later by the Confederates. He was shipped to
Philadelphia to be mustered out at the expiration of his three year term.
The Military Service of William Young Company H
On March 28th Private William Young was recruited by 1st Lieutentant Charles McAnally
into the 69th as a member of Company H. Young was a 40 year old laborer who had been
born in Philadelphia. Private Young fought at The Wilderness and at Spotsylvania but took
sick in the fighting at Cold Harbor and was sent back to Philadelphia. Here, he was placed
in the Haddingtion Hospital. He reportedly had been hurt while cutting timber for the
breastworks at Cold Harbor. He would be discharged May 30th 1865 after a lengthly
hospital stay.