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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Dersh

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old shoemaker from Schuylkill County, PA, he enlisted at Pottsville on 29 August 1861 and mustered in Harrisburg on 11 September as a Private in Company C of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot which fractured the upper part of his left humerus (upper arm bone) in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. His arm was amputated at the shoulder 2 days later.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 7 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from Gould1 and the Card File.2 Wound and medical details from the MSHWR,3 as H. Dorsch.

Birth

c. 1837

Notes

1 Gould, Joseph, The Story of the Forty-eighth : a Record of the Campaigns of the Forty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry ..., Philadelphia: Regimental Association, 1908, pp. 82 - 90, 400 - 460 (rosters) [AotW citation 5453]

3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 33117]

3 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. 622 [AotW citation 33118]

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