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(c. 1818 - ?)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 44 year old laborer from Portland, ME, he enlisted on 15 January 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 28 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his elbow in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was transferred to Company F, date not given. He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September and his left arm was amputated on 6 October 1862 by Surgeon Alfred Ball, 5th Ohio Infantry. He was transferred to General Hospital #1 in Frederick on 9 February 1863 and on to a hospital in Baltimore on 12 June. He was discharged for disability on 7 November 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1818 in IRELAND
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6666]
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, Appendix D, pg. 271 [AotW citation 29309]
3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29310]
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 2, pg. 756 [AotW citation 29311]
5 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 #109 [AotW citation 29312]