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(1841 - 1900)
Home State: Delaware
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Delaware Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old cotton spinner living with his father and 5 siblings in Brandywine, New Castle County, DE. He enlisted in Wilmington, DE on 18 April 1861 for three months and mustered on 12 May as a Private in Company A, 1st Delaware Infantry. He mustered out and reenlisted on 7 August 1861 for 3 years in the same rank and Company.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the abdomen in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862
by a conoidal musket ball, which entered a little to the left of the umbilicus, and lodged under the muscles near the anterior superior spinous process of the right ilium. There was great prostration, with nausea and vomiting, which were treated at the field hospital by the administration of opiates.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in Frederick, MD on 28 September, transferred to GH #5 on 9 October, and on to GH#6 on 29 December. He was discharged there for disability on 31 December (or 9 January 1863).
After the War
By 1880 he was a farm worker living on the John Ball place in Santa Barbara, CA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 the MSHWR,3 quoted above, and the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His older brother John, also in Company A, was killed at Antietam.
Birth
02/1841; Philadelphia, PA
Death
06/24/1900; Santa Barbara County, CA; burial in Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery, Lompoc, CA
1 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 31588]
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. 141 [AotW citation 16627]
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 2, p. 84 [AotW citation 31589]
4 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 #s 455, 476, and 784 [AotW citation 31590]