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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Maryland
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Maryland Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 23, he enlisted at Williamsport, MD on 15 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 3rd Maryland Infantry on 13 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot across his back through both shoulders at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was initially treated at a field hospital on the Hoffman Farm at Sharpsburg, sent to the Patent Office Hospital in Washington, DC on 28 September, and transferred to the Carver Hospital there on 17 January 1863. In March 1863 his surgeon noted
The ball entered behind the left shoulder joint, traversed the back beneath the scapula [shoulder blade], and was cut out from the posterior part of the upper third of the right arm. The ball was removed five months after receipt of the injury. The general health is good. A large abscess formed beneath the right scapula, and a sinus fourteen inches in length.He was discharged on 26 March 1863, his wound "disabling the patient in the use of each of his arms." He began receiving a disability pension the same month.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1838
1 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, Vol. 1, p. 119 [AotW citation 32109]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32112]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 323 [AotW citation 32110]
4 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. 486 [AotW citation 32111]