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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick S. O'Brien

(c. 1827 - 1866)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35, from Portland, he mustered as Private, Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 15 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshot in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His left leg was amputated. He was treated at US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD from 2 October 1862 to 5 March 1863, then probably sent to a hospital in Baltimore. He was discharged for wounds on 27 January 1863, but still in an Army hospital to 23 June 1863.

After the War

He died as a result of complications from his amputation on 9 July 1866.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde1 who lists him as Patrick O'Brian. Service from the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 His death from the MSHWR,4 which has him as P. O'Bryan.

Birth

c. 1827

Death

07/09/1866

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6654]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 181 [AotW citation 20822]

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 #523 [AotW citation 20824]

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, Volume 2, Part 3, pg. 252 [AotW citation 20823]

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