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(c. 1829 - 1862)
Home State: Maryland
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Maryland Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 5th Maryland Infantry on 15 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his neck and face in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam:
The missile entered the posterior part of the neck, one and one-half inches below the occipital protuberance just forward of the ligamentum nuchae, passed upward and forward, and emerged above the right ramus of the lower jaw.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Columbian College Hospital in Washington, DC on 20 September. He seemed to be doing well at the beginning of October but began to fail on the 12th, with symptoms of meningitis, then drowsiness and stupor. He went into a coma and died of his wounds on 14 October 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1829
Death
10/17/1862; Washington, DC; burial in US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC
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, pp. 214 - 220 [AotW citation 14388]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 144 [AotW citation 16907]
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. 131 [AotW citation 31236]