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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 66th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, he enlsited on 30 October 1861 in New York City and mustered as a Private in Company C, 66th New York Infantry on 5 November.
On the Campaign
He was wounded on the left side of his abdomen in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862,
the missile opened the cavity of the abdomen so that the meso-colon protruded.
The rest of the War
He was treated with cold-water dressings in a field hospital by Surgeon C.S. Wood of his regiment, then admitted to the US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 24 September. He was sent on to a hospital in in Philadelphia, PA two days later and "convalesced rapidly." He was discharged there for disability on 19 January 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1842
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 27, p. 848 [AotW citation 32042]
2 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 2, p. 183 [AotW citation 32043]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #314 [AotW citation 32044]