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Federal (USV)

Private

Frank Hart

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20 years, he enlisted on 23 April 1861 at New York City and mustered as a Private in Company E, 9th New York Infantry on 4 May.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a piece of artillery shell which broke his lower jaw and tore away the surface of his chin and half his lower lip.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital near the battlefield to 3 October then sent to a hospital in Chester, PA. On arrival his surgeon noted he

presented a horribly disfigured appearance, the whole mass of flesh on the chin being carried away, with part of the bones and two of the incisor teeth.

He was promoted Corporal on 20 November while in the hospital, and by 20 December all the bone fragments had been removed and most of the wound scarred over, so surgeons performed what would now be called plastic surgery to restore the shape of his chin. On 20 February 1863 he was listed as "entirely recovered" and was discharged for disability at Philadelphia.

After the War

He had been a laborer in New York City and was 32 years old when he was first admitted to the US National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (Central Branch) at Dayton, OH in July 1874, discharged in January 1875, and again there from 1876-77. He was subsequently a resident of other branches of the Home in Milwaukee (NW Branch, 1881-82) and Hampton, VA (Southern Branch, 1885-86), back in Dayton (to 1895), then transferred to the Eastern Branch in Togus, ME (1895-96).

References & notes

His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from the Registers.3

Birth

c. 1840 in NY

Notes

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, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pp. 681 - 689 [AotW citation 12693]

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 1, pp. 368-369 [AotW citation 31424]

3 US Department of Veterans Affairs, Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, Washington, DC: US National Archives and Records Administration, 1938 [AotW citation 31425]

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