Joseph J. Young

Age 34, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company D, First Minnesota Infantry on 29 April 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot which

entered the chest between the fourth and fifth ribs, one and a half inches from the sternum, passed through the right lung, and emerged at the lower and anterior edge of the right scapula [shoulder blede], the ball having glanced on striking the scapula.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 24 September in a "very debilitated state, having lost much blood." He continued to bleed occasionally, and had a skin infection, which "subsided". He was sent back to his unit on 27 December but was discharged for disability on 3 January 1863 at Falmouth, VA. He began receiving a disability pension later that month.

In 1867 a pension examiner reported that his "wound open and frequently discharging" and he was "much troubled with pain in region of liver." He later moved to Oregon and was in San Francisco, CA by 1871.

His service basics from Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR,3 the latter quoted above.

c. 1827