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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Hugh Morrison

(1838 - 1901)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old carpenter in Butler County, he enlisted in Pittsburgh on 30 August 1861 and mustered the next day as a Private in Company C, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant on 15 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the face in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862:

Missile entered behind left mastoid process [lower part of the back of his skull] and emerged through left eye, carrying away the eye.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 27 November 1862; the "left side of face paralyzed. Great deformity. Cannot shut the right eye." He had later service as 2nd Lieutenant of Company D, 9th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps.

References & notes

His service details from Bates1 and the Card File.2. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/10/1838; Philadelpia, PA

Death

01/04/1901; Bellvue, PA; burial in North Side Cemetery, Butler, PA

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 31394]

2   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17>  [AotW citation 31395]

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 1, p. 339  [AotW citation 31396]