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Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
From Pittsburgh, he enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 12th Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service. He mustered out with them on 5 August in Harrisburg. He enlisted again on 6 November 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Independent Battery C, Pennsylvania Light Artillery.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, the head of his humerus (upper arm) bone was "notched" by the bullet.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 27 September and Surgeon H.S. Hewitt removed part of the damaged humerus on 4 October. He was discharged for disability on 22 (or 24) November 1862.
After the War
In September 1874 a pension examiner noted that he could not raise his right arm above level with the ground and it was "useless for manual labor."
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11947]
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 #507 [AotW citation 32137]
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 2, p. 528 [AotW citation 32138]