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J. Davis
(c. 1823 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 88th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 38, he enlisted on 26 November 1861 in Oswego, to serve three years, and mustered the next day as a Private, Company B, 88th New York Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated at the thigh by Surgeon Reynolds on the 18th and he was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 24 September. He was discharged there for disability on 17 November 1862.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 His picture from a post-amputation photograph in the Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, posted to their Flickr account; thanks to John Banks for the pointer to him.
Birth
c. 1823
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 [AotW citation 10790]