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(c. 1815 - ?)
Home State: Delaware
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Delaware Infantry
Before Antietam
A silversmith by trade, he enlisted in Company G, 2nd Delaware Infantry at age 43 (46?) on 1 July 1861 in Philadelphia.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam:
Conoidal ball entered right ear, and emerged from right eye, completely destroying the globe.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in Frederick, MD on 25 September and sent on to Philadelphia the next day. He was admitted to the Satterlee Hospital in Philadelphia on 29 October and was discharged there on 7 February 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1815; County Tyrone, IRELAND
1 State of Delaware, Adjutant General's Office, Civil War Military records for Delaware Units, Published 1861-, first accessed 31 January 2015, <http://archives.delaware.gov/CivilWar/volumes/>, Source page: Muster Out Roll, 2nd Delaware Infantry [AotW citation 14636]
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 31371]
3 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 #102 [AotW citation 31372]
4 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. 333 [AotW citation 31373]