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Federal (USV)

Private

Nicholas Decker

(c. 1818 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 125th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He mustered on 11 August 1862 as a Private in Company C, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

At about age 45 he was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated on or near the battlefield the same day, and he was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (GH) at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 6 October. His leg was amputated again, further up his leg, later that day, but he died on 11 (or 17) October 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1818

Death

10/11/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Yocum Cemetery, Hesston, Huntington County, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. IV, pp. 114 - 115 [AotW citation 1285]

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 #487 [AotW citation 31007]

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 3. p. 297 [AotW citation 31008]

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