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(c. 1835 - 1868)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 26, he enlisted on 27 September 1861 in New York City and mustered as Private, Company F, 61st New York Infantry the next day. He was transferred to Company H on 1 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right ankle in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and his lower leg was amputated in a field hospital the same day.
The rest of the War
He developed gangrene and on 29 September Surgeon Henry S. Hewit amputated more of his leg, at the thigh, probably at US Army General Hospital #5 in the Novitiate Convent in Frederick, MD. He recovered sufficiently to be discharged on 23 July 1863 in Baltimore, MD and applied for a veteran's pension as an invalid a week later, which was granted.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1835
Death
05/04/1868
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, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 26, pg. 1094 [AotW citation 7704]
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 3, pg. 526 [AotW citation 27234]
3 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. 432 [AotW citation 27235]