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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Chamberlain

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 30th Ohio Infantry on 5 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to his right shoulder in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862, the head of his humerus (upper arm bone) and scapula (shoulder blade) were fractured.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 17 September and shattered bone was removed from his upper arm and shoulder. He was discharged for disability on 9 January (or 14 February) 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roster,1 as C. Chamberlain. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 He's also seen as Thomas C Chamberlin.

Birth

c. 1838

Notes

1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 414 [AotW citation 28303]

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 #133 [AotW citation 28304]

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, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 524 [AotW citation 32136]

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