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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Benjamin T. Stiles, Jr.

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 24 years, from Broome County, he enlisted on 12 May 1861 at New York City to serve two years and mustered in as a Private in Company C, 9th New York Infantry the same day. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 September and Sergeant on 20 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

The three "lesser" toes and the outside of his foot were amputated by Surgeon Humphreys. He was discharged for disability on 4 December 1862 at Falmouth, VA.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 with details from his Muster Roll Extracts, online from fold3. Amputation details from the MSHWR,2 as B. Sciter. Possibly son of Benjamin Turner Stiles (1818-1902) of Broome County, NY.

Birth

c. 1837

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. 760 - 770 [AotW citation 12755]

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 3, p. 632 [AotW citation 30967]

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