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Federal (USV)

Private

Hiram Collins

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Atwater, he enlisted on 27 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the left elbow and the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Showman Farm field hospital near the battlefield and was sent to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD with pneumonia on 4 October. He was transferred to Baltimore in 8 October and was discharged on 22 December 1862 for wounds.

References & notes

His service basics from Bryant.1 Wound and hospital details from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862, Nelson,2 and the Patient List.3 He's also seen as Hiram M and Hiram W Collins.

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 415 - 419 [AotW citation 15210]

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, p. 168 [AotW citation 34313]

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 #5.031 [AotW citation 34314]

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