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Federal (USV)

Private

John H. Carroll

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before Antietam

At age 28 he enlisted 25 September 1861 in New York City as Private, Company E, 61st New York Infantry. He transferred to Company F, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the arm in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a 2nd Corps field hospital near the battlefield, then sent to Satterlee Army Hospital in Philadelphia, PA where he was

Admitted, September 27, 1862 with gunshot wound of the right arm, a buckshot passing under the skin just below the axilla [armpit], injuring the internal cutaneous nerve.

Assistant Surgeon W.S. Halsey performed surgery along the nerve on 20 October to restore arm function and relieve John's considerable pain, but with limited success. The pain actually began to worsen on 13 December, probably due to scarring along the nerve, and treatments were only partially helpful. He was discharged for disability with "partial paralysis of right arm and neuralgia of the same" at Satterlee on 24 or 25 February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York1 and his muster roll extract, online from fold3, also as John Carrol. Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 the MSHWR,3 quoted above.

Birth

c. 1833

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 26 (for 1900) [AotW citation 7687]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 156 [AotW citation 17100]

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. 462 [AotW citation 32105]

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