Henry Harman

In 1860 he was a 21 year old worker on the Levi Gross farm at Dillsburg in York County. He enlisted in Harrisburg on 25 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves on 10 August.

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862

by a buckshot, which had entered on the right side of the neck on a level with the upper portion of the thyroid cartilage and on the anterior margin of the sterno-mastoid.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 26 September. He began bleeding from his wound on the 29th and his wound was plugged. A "tumor" or "false aneurism" began to form reaching from the wound to his collar bone by that afternoon and his right leg and part of his right arm were paralyzed. By the 30th the swelling was making it hard to breathe, so surgery was performed to tie off his carotid artery. On the morning of 1 October he had more bleeding, which was controlled, but he "gradually sank" and died at 10 o'clock that evening.

An autopsy found massive damage in the vessels of his neck and located the buckshot, lodged in his spinal cord.

He was originally buried in Frederick and reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Henry Herman. Service data from Bates2 and the Card File.3 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 4 and the MSHWR,5 quoted above, both as Henry Herman. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1839

10/01/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD