Archibald L. McDougall

Signature of A. L. McDougall, 09/1854 from the Franklin House Hotel Guest Register dating from Sept, 1854 - April, 1855. This register is in the private collection of H. Blair Howell. Archibald Livingston McDougall (1817 – June 23, 1864) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who commanded the 123rd New York Volunteer Infantry early in the war and subsequently led a brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Biography Archibald Livingston McDougall was born in 1817 near East Greenwich in Washington County, New York. In 1848, McDougall married Mary Blanchard (b.1826), with whom he had five children: John (b.1849), William (1854-1886), Mary (b.1856), Jennie McDougall Davison (b.1859), and Grace McDougall Law (b.1861). He worked as a lawyer in Pennsylvania and New York before enlisting for military service in September 1862,

When Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker took XII Corps and two divisions of XI Corps to the relief of the Army of the Cumberland, besieged in Chattanooga, Williams’ division was assigned to guard supply lines. Thus it missed the battles in which Brig. Gen. John W. Geary’s 2nd Division participated.

McDougall's regiment joined the new XX Corps in the Army of the Cumberland. He was wounded in the leg at the Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia on May 25, 1864. Surgeons amputated the leg, but McDougall died on June 23, 1864, at an officers’ hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee.