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(1837 - 1893)
Home State: New Jersey
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd New Jersey Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company E, 2nd New Jersey Infantry on 28 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his groin in action on 14 September 1862 at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital at Burkittsville, where Assistant Surgeon H. A. DuBois reported:
A musket ball penetrated the penis, testes, and thigh. By the end of September the patient was convalescent.On 1 September 1863 he was transferred to Company A, 21st Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps. He reenlisted in the 2nd Infantry on 25 April 1864 and became an American Citizen by naturalization on 12 October 1865 in Trenton. He was discharged a month later, on 10 November 1865, from a hospital in Newark, NJ.
After the War
In 1868 and 1873 pension examiners in Elizabeth and Trenton, NJ noted that he still had a hole in his penis and leaked urine through it. By 1880 he was a tinsmith in Trenton, and was suffering from malaria when the census taker interviewed him that year.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of New Jersey.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 quoted above. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married German-born Josephine Broker (1848-1929) in March 1865 had they had at least one child, daughter Josephine (c. 1875-).
Birth
1837; Saxony, GERMANY
Death
12/15/1893; Trenton, NJ; burial in Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
1 State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, Vol. 1, p. 125 [AotW citation 32066]
2 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. 362 [AotW citation 32067]