Colonel John Burke

John Timothy Burke (July 8, 1838 – June 23, 1914) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was court martialed for alleged cowardice at the Battle of Antietam and dismissed from the army.

Burke was born in Dunmanway, County Cork, Munster, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States and settled in Oswego, New York. At the start of the war, Burke was the lieutenant colonel of the 37th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment "The Irish Rifles." During the Peninsula Campaign, he was wounded in the first of the Seven Days Battles on June 25, 1862, at Oak Grove. [Antietam on the Web.]

By the Maryland Campaign in September 1862, he had become the colonel of the 63rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in "The Irish Brigade".

Burke died in Oswego at the age of 75 and was buried in the town's cemetery.

References

*cite book
title=The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns
author=David Power Conyngham, Lawrence Frederick Kohl
year=1994
publisher=Fordham Univ Press
isbn=0823215784
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=b39pr-XpL6YC&pg=RA1-PA566&dq=Colonel+John+Burke+of+the+Irish+Brigade&ei=oS5fR9OaBo-OiQHd8O3oAg&sig=h15p7Atn5fyDYjea1GsZEXhX6N0

* [http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=385&from=results Antietam on the Web bio]

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