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(c. 1818 - ?)
Home State: Maryland
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Maryland Infantry
Before Antietam
A 43 year old painter, he enlisted in Baltimore and mustered as a Private in Company F, 5th Maryland Infantry on 4 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, the bullet entering his neck "about an inch and a half below his right ear and emerging a little above the seventh cervical vertebra."
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Stone House field hospital on the Samuel Poffenberger farm at Sharpsburg and then sent to the Carver Hospital in Washington, DC (by October 1862). He was discharged for disability there on 30 March 1863 and granted a disability pension in April 1863.
After the War
On 24 January 1867 a pension examiner noted that his right arm was almost completely paralyzed.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1818 in VA
1 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, Vol. 1, pg. 204 [AotW citation 14348]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31432]
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 1, p. 409 [AotW citation 31431]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 258 [AotW citation 31430]