Andrew Leddy who fought for the North in the Civil War

According to a letter written by Harold Leddy, his grandfather was an Andrew Leddy who lived in New York City and died right after the Civil War from his wounds.  Until recently I knew nothing more about Andrew Leddy than was in that letter.  However I have found this entry in a book:  Annual Report of the Adjudant-General of the State of New York for the year 1901, Registers of the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first,Seventy-second, Seventy-third and Seventyfourth Regiments of Infantry. TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE JANUARY 7, 1902. SERIAL No. 28., ALBANY, J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1902, pg. 1031.  

The gist of the entry is that an Andrew Leddy enlisted at age 37 July 12, 1861 in Staten Island as a private, was in Co. F., 73rd Infantry of New York, transferred to Co. H. Sept. 1, 1861, was wounded (no date), and mustered out on Aug. 2, 1864.  This gives him time to die of his wounds in the following year. 

If he was 37 in 1861, the date of enlistment, he would have been born in 1824.  It is not clear whether he was born in the U.S. or in Ireland.  Chances are he was born in Ireland and came over during the Potato Famine between 1845 and 1849.  The letter below mentions the Potato Famine and, although it does not directly say that Andrew came over during it, this is likely.  That would have meant that he would come over to the U.S. when he was about 25.   

Harold Leddy's father, John T. Leddy, was born in 1857 and died in 1935.  John T. was married to Mary Amanda Murray.  According to Harold's letter the sister of Andrew Leddy was a Jennie Snee of New York.  I am re-posting the letter here:

Harold Leddy on his ancestors: letter from approximately May, 1967 to my father John B. Leddy before we [Jack, Jane,  Tom, Robin, Bill, John] took our first trip to Europe as a family.

"I wish I could give you some good leads on the Leddy geneology (?)  Msgr. Leddy [he was no relation, but was in Bakersfield and married Jack and Jane Leddy, first name Patrick] thinks we came from County Clare or Cavin,  They kept no passenger lists of the Irish who came over at the time of the potato famine (1848 et sec [sic])  There is a paper in Belfast that used to print a list of family names and trace them back to some early king or saint.  I'm sure we would be included and probably could boast a coat of arms.  All I know is that my father was born in New York; that his father (whose name I believe was Andrew Leddy) served in the civil war.  That he died from wounds tho not on the battlefield.  That Papa was raised by an uncle named Daley or Daley who operated a shoe blacking factory near the waterfront in Philadelphia.  Helen says there is a A Snee living in New York or Brooklyn;  Jennie Snee was Papa's sister.  They operated a ship chandlers business and made a lot of money converting passenger ships to troop ships in W.W.I. and vice versa.

Some day you might carry on my research.  On my mothers side Anna Breen has the complete dope (or thinks she has)   She wanted to belong to the D.A.R. and for a price the experts produced a long line of ancestors which went beyond the Revolution and an ancestor is buried in Old Swedes churchyard in Phila. 

As to Mother's ancestry you have all the information needed.  At least you have living Scottish relations.

Have a Happy Trip and tell the boys [Tom, Bill and John, children of John B. Leddy] to watch out for those French girls. 

 Love Dad [Harold Leddy]"