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Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 28 year old machinist in Concord, NH, he enlisted and mustered as Private, Company H, 20th Massachusetts Infantry on 18 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 ...
... by a round ball, which entered the right side, just above the nipple, and passed out on the back near the inferior angle of the scapula, having made a circuit of one-fourth of the circumference of the thorax.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September 1862.
This man came under our observation at Frederick City, Md., twenty-three days after the injury was received, and he informed us that he never expectorated blood, that he had had no cough, and in short that he had experienced only the most trivial inconvenience from the wound. The orifices were still discharging pus, but he seemed well.He was discharged for disability on 1 November 1862.
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 560 [AotW citation 22168]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #535 [AotW citation 22169]