Michael Sullivan

He was a 28 year old laborer in New Orleans when he enlisted in Company K, 6th Louisiana Infantry on 4 June 1861 at Camp Moore, LA.

He was mortally wounded by 5 gunshots and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862

He was initially treated at the White House field hospital on the George Line farm north of Sharpsburg then was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in the Winchester Female Seminary in Frederick, MD on 3 October. His surgeon later reported:

The patient was wounded by five balls. The first entered about one and a half inches above and a little inside of the left patella [knee], and, passing through, fractured and comminuted the femur, and emerged on the outside abut three and a half inches above the knee joint. The second ball entered the left thigh near the junction with the perineum, merely making a flesh wound. The third entered about three and a half inches below and a little posterior to the trochanters of the right thigh, fracturing the femur, and, going directly through, emerged at the junction of the thigh with the perineum. The fourth missile produced a flesh wound, entering just over the junction of the dorsal and lumbar vertebra, and was not found; and the fifth grazed the left thigh posteriorly at the junction of the upper and middle thirds.

Hagerstown burial information from Pruett.1 Service details from Booth2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 via fold3. Wound and treatment details from the MSHWR.4 There are a pair of stones for him at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, so he may still be there.

See the page from the MSHWR with a full case study of his medical treatment on the blog behind AotW.

c. 1833 in IRELAND

04/22/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD