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(? - 1898)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted in Company E (or I) of the 3rd Pennsylvania Infantry, a 3-month unit, on 20 April 1861, and was discharged on 29 July. He enlisted again and mustered in Philadelphia on 10 August 1861 as a Private in Company E, 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862: a
conoidal ball entered a the edge of the posterior fold of the axilla [armpit], injuring ulnar nerver (paralysis fifth finger), penetrating lung, and emerging over middle bone of sternum.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the field hospital on the Hoffmann Farm near Sharpsburg, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 23 September, where he was
the most interesting case that came to this hospital for treatment and was considered a hopeless one from the beginning. Patient very much emaciated; habitual cough; purulent sputa; matter for days emerging from sternum ... air also escaping from wound; left lung doing all the work ... unable to lie down ...But he did gradually improve. He began walking about the ward and on 29 December he transferred to USA GH#1 in Frederick. He was discharged there on 6 March 1863.
After the War
He was granted a veteran's disability pension, and in February 1866 an examiner found "he has constant hacking cough, accompanied by pain, and that deep inspiration causes tearing pain." At the US Veterans' Census of 1890 he was living at 3047 Susquehanna Avenue in Philadelphia.
References & notes
Death
05/08/1898
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31545]
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 31546]
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, p. 620 [AotW citation 31547]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 200 [AotW citation 31548]