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"John"
(1823 - 1910)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 46th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 37, he enlisted in New York City for three years and mustered as Private, Company G, 46th New York Infantry on 3 September 1861. He transferred to Company F by the end of October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his scalp and skull in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 17 September and sent on to Stuart's Mansion Hospital in Baltimore on 20 (or 25) September. He was discharged for disability on 17 March 1863 in Baltimore, MD, when his surgeon reported him as
greatly debilitated, and suffering from spinal irritation, with partial paralysis of the lower extremities, for which, treatment had afforded very little benefit.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a blacksmith in Brooklyn, NY and he began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in August 1879. In 1900, then age 76, he was a day laborer in Brooklyn. He was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Bath, ME on 22 April 1905, but left on his own request on 30 May.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List2 and the MSHWR,3 both as John Arend. Personal details from the US Census of 1870-1900 (giving his birth also as Belgium and Luxembourg) and the Registers.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Karolina/Caroline (?; 1833-) and they had 7 children by 1880; he was a widower by 1905.
Birth
10/1823 in GERMANY
Death
03/29/1910; burial in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 24, p. 440 [AotW citation 31194]
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 # 3.975 [AotW citation 31195]
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 1, p. 113 [AotW citation 31196]
4 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938 [AotW citation 31197]