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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John Nulty

(c. 1839 - 1863)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old laborer in Boston, he enlisted 20 October and mustered as Private, Company C, 28th Massachusetts Infantry on 13 December 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to the skull through his ear and jaw in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring Hospital near Keedysville, then transferred to the Camp B Hospital, Frederick, MD on 5 December. His exit wound had largely healed by then, but his vision was still impaired and he had lost hearing in his right ear. He "failed gradually" and died of wounds 20 January 1863.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. Service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.2 Hospital and medical details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR.4

Birth

c. 1839

Death

01/20/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3986]

2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 215 [AotW citation 20129]

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 #889 [AotW citation 20130]

4 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, Vol. 2, Part 1, pg. 210 [AotW citation 20131]

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