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(1825 - 1899)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Medical Director
Branch of Service: Medical
Unit: Fifth Army Corps
Before Antietam
Age 34, he enrolled on 27 May 1861 and mustered as Surgeon of the 37th New York Infantry on 7 June 1861. He was discharged 10 October to accept the commission as Surgeon, US Volunteers to date from 2 October 1861 and assigned to the staff of General Dix.
On the Campaign
He was Medical Director of the 5th Army Corps on the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and treated wounded soldiers in a field hospital in Middletown, MD after the battle at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September.
The rest of the War
He was Medical Director of the Twelfth Corps at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. He was honored by brevet to Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers on 2 June 1865 for his war service and mustered out on 27 July 1865.
References & notes
Birth
1825 in NY
Death
09/14/1899; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Fort Dodge, IA
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 680 [AotW citation 28768]
2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 22, pg. 703 [AotW citation 28769]
3 Duncan, Louis C., and Captain, Medical Corps, US Army, The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War: unpublished collection, c. 1916, pp. 11, 45 [AotW citation 28770]
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. 272 [AotW citation 31324]