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Federal (USA)

Private

John Lowery

(c. 1829 - ?)

Home State: Kentucky

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 29 year old blacksmith, he enlisted at Newport, KY in Company G, 2nd United States Infantry on 12 May 1858. He transferred to Company I, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right temple, probably in action near the Middle Bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 22 September, sent on to Washington, DC on 27 September, and was in McDougal Hospital in New York Harbor on 10 October. He had dangerous bleeding on 16 October but was successfully treated, recovered, and was returned to duty on 4 November 1862. He mustered out at the end of his enlistment on 12 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Registers.1 His wound and hospital information from the Patient List,2 which has him as John Lowrey and says he was shot through his lower jaw, and the MSHWR.3

Birth

c. 1829; County Tyrone, IRELAND

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 053, pg. 124 [AotW citation 26445]

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 #214 [AotW citation 26446]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870, Volume 2, Part 1, page 81 [AotW citation 26447]

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