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Federal (USV)

Private

Hugh Collins

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted in Utica on 13 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 26th New York Infantry on 21 MAy.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 ...

by a conoidal ball which entered the cranium just above the right eye ad lodged in the left side of the neck, four inches below the ear.

The rest of the War

The bullet was removed and he was admitted to the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield on 8 October. He was discharged for wounds there on 20 December 1862. On 13 February 1863 a pension examiner found that he had "partial amaurosis" of both eyes but was otherwise healthy.

After the War

He was later judged totally disabled, unable to work and with poor eyesight.

References & notes

His service basis from the State of New York.1. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2

Birth

c. 1842

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 21 (for 1899) [AotW citation 7331]

2 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 1, p. 208 [AotW citation 31268]

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