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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

James Hynds

(c. 1834 - 1892)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 83rd New York Infantry (9th Militia)

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 26 year old carpenter in New York City. He enlisted there and mustered as a Private in Company I, 9th New York State Militia (83rd Regiment) on 17 July 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 20 August and to Sergeant on 21 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot (or piece of shell) to his left shoulder in action on 17 September 1862 which tore away the outer half of his collar bone and broke his shoulder blade.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 on 26 September where

The soft parts above the [shoulder] joint had the appearance of having been much torn and lacerated and were in a sloughy condition.

On 12 October Dr Gordon Buck removed parts of his collar bone with a "chain-saw" and splinted his arm, and he removed additional bone fragments on 12 December. James's "general condition was good" on 16 January 1863 and he was discharged for disability due to paralysis of his arm on 10 (or 13) March 1863, his wound still not completely closed.

After the War

At the 1890 US Veteran's Census he was living at 965 2nd Avenue in New York City.

References & notes

His service basics from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 His death date from his Pension Card, online from fold3. His gravesite may be on Findagrave (possibly mixed with another person, James W Hynds).

Birth

c. 1834 in IRELAND

Death

02/17/1892; in NY; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

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 30 (for 1901) [AotW citation 7398]

2 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 #4.582 [AotW citation 31532]

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 1, p. 559 [AotW citation 31533]

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