Frederick Voegelin

An unmarried 24 year old clerk in Selma, AL, he enlisted there on 24 June 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

His leg was amputated at lower third of his thigh at a field hospital on 19 September by a US surgeon. He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 26 September. He was transferred to GH #1 there on 29 December, sent on to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 9 February 1863, and forwarded to Fortress Monroe, VA on 14 February for exchange.

He was admitted to a CS hospital in Petersburg, VA on 18 February and was furloughed home for 90 days on 2 March 1863. He was in a hospital again, at Charlottesville, VA on 24 May 1864, transferred to Richmond on 20 July, and again furloughed home on the 21st.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Fred Vogelin, Voeglin, Vouglin, etc. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 also as right thigh. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862.

He applied for an artificial leg from the Association for the Relief of Maimed Soldiers in Richmond while in the Charlottesville hospital in May 1864.

c. 1838 in AL