James H. Goldey

He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry, date and place unknown.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his head and scalp in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Washington, DC on 23 September and on to the Fort Schyler Hospital in New York on 7 October. He was transferred to Fort Hamilton, NY on 1 December and to Satterlee Hospital in Philadelphia on 13 December, by which time his wound had closed but he complained of pain. It reopened on 18 December and in January 1863 a 1 inch circle of dead skull bone was found. By 2 February his wound was discharging profusely, the dead bone was removed on 25 February, and another small piece of bone was removed on 3 March. His wound was substantially healed by 17 March, he felt "entirely well," and he was released and discharged on 22 May 1863.

He may be the same James H Goldey who enlisted in Philadelphia at age 18 (!) in Battery E, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery on 13 November 1863 and was killed near Petersburg, VA on 3 July 1864.

His service in the 90th Pennsylvania found only on the index card to his Compiled Service Records 1 and in the MSHWR,2 source also of his wound and hospital details.