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(1840 - 1895)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 64th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old junior blacksmith living with blacksmith Reuben Doty and family in Wellsville, Allegany County, NY. He enlisted there on 14 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 64th New York Infantry on 5 October.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot which fractured his right parietal (skull) bone.
The rest of the War
He was initially treated at a field hospital near the battlefield, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 24 September.
On admission, he had complete paralysis of the right leg and right arm, and several convulsions soon after occurred. A crucial incision was made, and depressed bone was elevated and removed by Assistant Surgeon R.F. [Robert Fulton] Weir, USA. The flaps were then replaced, and adhesive strips and cold-water dressings were applied. Erysipelas [skin infection] of the forehead supervened, but this was successfully treated by the usual remedies. By November 17th the wound had cicatrized [scarred over], and by April 1863 the paralysis had disappeared.He was discharged there for total disability on 21 May 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a successful blacksmith in Wellsville. He was still living there at the 1890 US Veteran's Census.
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 source of the quote above. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Anna Koch (1841-1913) and they had 8 children between 1867 and 1883.
Birth
1840; Baden-Württemberg, GERMANY
Death
02/02/1895; Wellsville, NY; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wellsville, NY
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 1901, Ser. No. 27, p. 203 [AotW citation 7708]
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 #4.403 [AotW citation 31271]
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. 235 [AotW citation 31272]