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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, a bootmaker from Abington, MA, he enlisted and mustered on 26 June (or 5 July) 1861 at Fort Warren in Boston as a Private in Company I, 12th Massachusetts Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, by a gunshot that "entered the left buttock and emerged from the right groin" also wounding his bladder.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital and discharged there for disability from wounds, including "partial paralysis of his lower extremities" on 19 December 1862. He was granted a pension on 16 February 1863.
He reenlisted in Company I on 7 June 1863 but re-injured his bladder in March 1864 when he fell "astride the round of a ladder." In June he had surgery at the Cuyler Hospital in the Germantown section of Philadelphia to repair his bladder, was furloughed in September, then transferred to the Mower Hospital in Philadelphia, PA on 10 May 1865. He was discharged there for disability on 29 June 1865.
After the War
In December 1865 a pension examiner noted that "the bladder has been penetrated, and a fistulous opening now exists near the anus from which urine escapes. No urine passes through the urethra."
References & notes
Birth
c. 1842; Boston, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 54 - 56 [AotW citation 6844]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32069]
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. 368 [AotW citation 32070]