AKA: William Gallagher
American Civil War Veteran (North)
37th New York Infantry, Co. F. Wounded(shot through right bicep) at Battle of Fair Oaks(Seven Pines), VA 31May1862. Discharged for disability 28Oct1862 at Edwards Ferry,MD
After his service in the Civil War, William left New York City and brought his family to Pittsburgh where he worked as a laborer. He continued to struggle daily with the pain and weakness in his right arm caused by the bullet that destroyed muscle tissue in his bicep.
His wife stated in the pension record that the name change was caused by William "not getting along so peaceably with his father as was desirable and getting along very well and affectionately with his mother and her maiden name being Gallagher he my dead husband adapted it and went about under said name of Gallagher yet he enlisted and served in the Northern Army under his true and correct name, that of William Dugan."
William and Catherine knew each other since they were "little children." They were marriage July 3, 1853 in New York City (maiden name Granahan, not Graham as noted in some of her children's death records). Also, as of 1879 they had seven children (6 girls). The oldest is shown in the records of NYC born in Manhattan 1854.
American Civil War Veteran (North)
37th New York Infantry, Co. F. Wounded(shot through right bicep) at Battle of Fair Oaks(Seven Pines), VA 31May1862. Discharged for disability 28Oct1862 at Edwards Ferry,MD
After his service in the Civil War, William left New York City and brought his family to Pittsburgh where he worked as a laborer. He continued to struggle daily with the pain and weakness in his right arm caused by the bullet that destroyed muscle tissue in his bicep.
His wife stated in the pension record that the name change was caused by William "not getting along so peaceably with his father as was desirable and getting along very well and affectionately with his mother and her maiden name being Gallagher he my dead husband adapted it and went about under said name of Gallagher yet he enlisted and served in the Northern Army under his true and correct name, that of William Dugan."
William and Catherine knew each other since they were "little children." They were marriage July 3, 1853 in New York City (maiden name Granahan, not Graham as noted in some of her children's death records). Also, as of 1879 they had seven children (6 girls). The oldest is shown in the records of NYC born in Manhattan 1854.
AKA: William Gallagher
American Civil War Veteran (North)
37th New York Infantry, Co. F. Wounded(shot through right bicep) at Battle of Fair Oaks(Seven Pines), VA 31May1862. Discharged for disability 28Oct1862 at Edwards Ferry,MD
After his service in the Civil War, William left New York City and brought his family to Pittsburgh where he worked as a laborer. He continued to struggle daily with the pain and weakness in his right arm caused by the bullet that destroyed muscle tissue in his bicep.
His wife stated in the pension record that the name change was caused by William "not getting along so peaceably with his father as was desirable and getting along very well and affectionately with his mother and her maiden name being Gallagher he my dead husband adapted it and went about under said name of Gallagher yet he enlisted and served in the Northern Army under his true and correct name, that of William Dugan."
William and Catherine knew each other since they were "little children." They were marriage July 3, 1853 in New York City (maiden name Granahan, not Graham as noted in some of her children's death records). Also, as of 1879 they had seven children (6 girls). The oldest is shown in the records of NYC born in Manhattan 1854.
American Civil War Veteran (North)
37th New York Infantry, Co. F. Wounded(shot through right bicep) at Battle of Fair Oaks(Seven Pines), VA 31May1862. Discharged for disability 28Oct1862 at Edwards Ferry,MD
After his service in the Civil War, William left New York City and brought his family to Pittsburgh where he worked as a laborer. He continued to struggle daily with the pain and weakness in his right arm caused by the bullet that destroyed muscle tissue in his bicep.
His wife stated in the pension record that the name change was caused by William "not getting along so peaceably with his father as was desirable and getting along very well and affectionately with his mother and her maiden name being Gallagher he my dead husband adapted it and went about under said name of Gallagher yet he enlisted and served in the Northern Army under his true and correct name, that of William Dugan."
William and Catherine knew each other since they were "little children." They were marriage July 3, 1853 in New York City (maiden name Granahan, not Graham as noted in some of her children's death records). Also, as of 1879 they had seven children (6 girls). The oldest is shown in the records of NYC born in Manhattan 1854.
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