Herman Hillman Pryor

In 1860 he was a 28 year old moulder in Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, PA. He enlisted there on 15 October 1861 and mustered in Harrisburg as a Private in Company H, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry on 8 November. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, by a gunshot which

entered the left side of the nose, just above the lower edge of the nasal bone, passed obliquely across through the antrum [cavity/sinus] on the right side, and emerged just below the malar process [part of cheekbone below the eye], causing difficulty in breathing and partial loss of sight of right eye. Free hemorrhage followed for about twenty minutes after he received the injury, when it ceased, and did not return.

He was treated by simple dressings at a field hospital near the battlefield at (probably) in a hospital in Chambersburg, PA. He was admitted to the Broad & Cherry Streets Hospital in Philadelphia on 11 December, by which time his wounds had largely healed with slight deformity. He was discharged on a Surgeon's certificate on 9 January 1863 at Annapolis, MD.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a moulder, at Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County, PA.

His service from Bates1 and the Card File,2 in the latter as Herman H Prior. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,3 quoted above, and Nelson.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880; his death record has his birth at Lehigh Gap, Lehigh County, PA. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

06/21/1832; Manch Chunk, PA

02/08/1899; Sweet Valley, Luzerne County, PA; burial in Pleasant Hill Christian Church Cemetery, Sweet Valley, PA