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A.W. Taylor
"Asa"
(1830 - 1917)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 30 year old clerk in Brooklyn, NY, and probably a member of the 9th New York State Militia before the war. Giving his age as 26, he enlisted in New York City on 27 May 1861 for three years and mustered the same day as a Private in Company D, 83rd New York Infantry. He was probably promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, by a gunshot which entered the right side of his neck just below his skull and emerged below his left nostril, breaking his lower jaw, destroying several teeth, and passing through his palate.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and send on to the 16th & Filbert Streets Hospital in Philadelphia on 27 (or 29) September. He was discharged for wounds there on 30 December 1862, "doing well in all respects."
After the War
By 1900, by then age 70, he was retired and living with his sister Lillian in Galesburg, IL. His veteran's pension was increased to $30 a month by act of Congress on 1 March 1901, and to $50 in 1916.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists, notably those tracing Ancestors of Mayflower Descendant, Robert E. Fitzgerald, and the US Census of 1860 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph kindly provided by Dave Hann from his collection.
Birth
03/30/1830; Brookfield, CT
Death
10/06/1917; Galesburg, IL; burial in Linwood Cemetery, Galesburg, IL
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), pg. 721 [AotW citation 7453]
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 #4.499 [AotW citation 31422]
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. 364 [AotW citation 31423]