Patrick Hanlon

Age 26, he mustered as a Private in Company I of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth. He was elected 3rd Lieutenant (Junior 2nd Lieutenant) on 26 April 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg, shattering the bone, in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862. His leg was amputated on the field the same day, at the thigh, by Assistant Surgeon Groves.

He was afterward in hospitals and in Natchez, MS on furlough to at least 16 May 1864, when he was retired to the Invalid Corps for disability. He was in and out of hospitals in Charlottesville and Richmond, VA between May 1864 and at least February 1865. He was captured and paroled at Richmond, VA on 3 May 1865.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1835