Arthur Foote Hascall

He was 21 years old when he enlisted as Corporal in Company C, 61st NY Infantry on 10 September 1861. Promoted Sergeant (date not known).

Reported wounded in action, but probably mortally injured at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by accident:

Case - At Antietam, Maryland, September 17th, 1862, a soldier, employed in entrenching, struck another, on the left side of his head, with the edge of a spade. The wounded man fell, badly stunned, and, on examination, it was found that the blow had produced a depressed fracture of the left parietal bone. The patient was conveyed to the Smoketown Hospital, and was placed under the care of Surgeon B. A. Vanderkieft, U. S. V. He breathed with stertor, and had a slow pulse, dilated pupils, and the other signs of compression of the brain. The scalp was shaved, and an incision was made, through which a number of fragments of detached bone were removed. The patient lingered, in a state of stupor, until November 8th, 1862. The particulars of the case are not recorded in the register or in the reports from Smoketown Hospital; but the only death in the hospital from fracture of the cranium, at the date referred to, is that of Sergeant Arthur F. Hascall, Co. C, 61st New York Volunteers ...

He died of his injury on 8 November 1862 at Smoketown, MD.

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service data from the State of New York.2 Quote above from the Medical and Surgical History.3 Birth information from family genealogists. The picture here from a photograph in the collection of the NY State Military Museum, found online through the New York Heritage Portal.

He also has a monument and is said to be buried at the Colgate University Cemetery, in Madison County, NY. His death date is also found in records as the 6th or 11th of November. The date from his medical report used here.

See a post with more about Hascall over on the behindAotW blog.

06/22/1840; Florence, NY

11/08/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD